Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler

Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler (4 December 1789, Rifferswil – 9 September 1839, Zürich) was a Swiss physician and botanist.

[1] Later on, he worked as a physician at the typhus hospital in Rheinau, and from 1814 to 1831, he served as a doctor in the town of Stafa.

[2][3] The botanical genus Hegetschweilera Heer, Regel (1842) commemorates his name,[4] as does taxa with the specific epithet of hegetschweileri.

[5] Among his better written efforts was an enumeration of Swiss plants, titled Beyträge zur einer kritischent aufzählung der Schweizer pflanzen (1831),[2] and a new edition of Johann Rudolf Suter's Flora Helvetica (1822).

[6] After his death, Oswald Heer edited and published Hegetschweiler's Flora der Schweiz (1840).