Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (19 May 1812, in Dannenfels – 10 February 1858, in Landau in der Pfalz) was a German bryologist.
[1] He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Munich, and from 1837 taught classes in natural sciences, agriculture and technology at the vocational school in Zweibrücken.
He made the acquaintance of bryologist Philipp Bruch, and through this association, began devoting his time to the study of mosses.
The botanical genus Guembelia (family Grimmiaceae) was named after him by Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe.
[2] He made significant contributions to Bruch and Schimper's Bryologia Europaea seu genera muscorum Europaeorum, and was the author of the following works: