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Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (
January 12,
1808 -
March 20,
1880) was a German-French
botanist who was born in
Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, a town near the River Rhine. He was father of botanist
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856-1901) and cousin to
naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803-1867) and botanist
Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804-1878). After graduation from the
University of Strasbourg, he was a
curator of the Natural History Museum in
Strasbourg, becoming director of the museum in 1839. From 1862 until 1879 he was a professor of
geology and
natural history at the University of Strasbourg.
Schimper's contributions to biology were mainly in the specialized fields of
bryology (study of mosses) and
paleobotany (study of plant fossils). He spent considerable time travelling throughout Europe collecting botanical specimens. His best-known written work is the six-volume
Bryologia Europaea, which was published between 1836 and 1855. It was co-written with Philipp Bruch and describes every species of
moss known in 19th century Europe.
Schimper also made significant contributions in geology. In 1874 Schimper proposed a scientific subdivision of the
Tertiary Era. He called this new subdivision the
Paleocene Era, which he based on paleobotanical findings from the Paris Basin.
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