Wilhelm Gottlieb Schneider

Wilhelm Gottlieb Schneider (8 May 1814 – 9 January 1889) was a Silesian-German entomologist, botanist and mycologist.

At school he was influenced by the Silesian entomologist and teacher Theodor Emil Schummel.

He joined the University of Breslau to study the natural sciences and here he was influenced by Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst.

He then studied entomology and received a doctorate in 1843 with a dissertation titled Monographia generis Rhaphidiae Linnaei.

[1] Schneider encouraged other Silesian botanists to collect including Gerhardt in Liegnitz, Cantor Dressier in Löwenberg, and Zimmermann in Striegau.