Chrétien Géofroy Nestler

Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler (1 March 1778, Strasbourg – 2 October 1832), was an Alsatian botanist and pharmacist.

He studied under Louis Claude Richard in Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist.[1] He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the University of Strasbourg and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the botanical garden at Strasbourg.[2]

As a taxonomist, he described a number of species within the genus Potentilla.[3] The genus Nestlera (family Asteraceae) was named in his honor by Kurt Sprengel.[4]

Written works
  • "Monographia de Potentilla præmissis nonnullis observationibus circa familiam Rosacearum". (1816).
  • "Index plantarum quae in horto Academ. Argentinensi anno 1817 viguerunt" (1818).
  • Notice sur le Sedum repens (1830).
  • "Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1843).
  • "Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm-Philippe Schimper (1854).[5]

References
  1. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. Museum Grenoble Stirpes Cryptogamae Vogeso-Rhenanae de Jean-Baptiste Mougeot et Christian Gottfried Nestler
  3. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Nestler.
  4. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. English Wikisource (published works)
  6. International Plant Names Index.  Nestl.
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