Johann Christoph Schleicher

Johann Christoph Schleicher (26 February 1768 - 27 August 1834) was a Swiss botanist, bryologist, mycologist, pteridologist and algologist of German origin.

[1] He was born on 26 February 1770 (according to other sources - in 1768) in the family of Anna Maria Savitsky.

Schleicher settled in Bévieux sur Bex around 1800, where he worked in a pharmacy.

He created the first botanical garden in the canton of Vaud in the city of Bevieux and is considered to be the inventor of the commercial catalogs of plants, of which he published the first copy of 76 pages in 1800.

Plantae Cryptogamae Helveticae, quas in Locis Earum Natalibus Collegit et Exsiccavit J.C. Schleicher Cent.