August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel

August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen – 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.

He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797.^[1] Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.^[2]

He described a number of plant species,^[3] and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).^[4] The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.^[5]

Principal works

• Primitiae florae Werthemensis, 1799.
• Beyträge zur Beförderung der Pflanzenkunde: Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, 1800 - Contributions to the advancement of botany.^[6]

References

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
2. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - W Department of Systematic Botany
3. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Wibel
4. Index Nominum Genericorum database Sciophila
5. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
6. Google Search (publications)
7. International Plant Names Index.  Wibel.