Michał Szubert

Fryderyk Michał Szubert (18 April 1787 – 5 May 1860) was a Polish biologist and botanist who served as the first director of the Botanical Garden in Warsaw.

Returning to Poland in 1813 he taught botany at the Lyceum and forestry at the School of Law and Administration.

He collected extensively for his herbarium while at the university and his students included Jakub Ignacy Waga and Wojciech Jastrzębowski.

[1] Szubert married Józefa Zofia née Szwarc (died 1878).

He died in 1860 and was buried in Płock and the remains were moved in 1862 to the Warsaw Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery.