Emil Johann Lambert Heinricher

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Emil Johann Lambert Heinricher (November 14, 1856 - July 13, 1934) was an Austrian botanist who was born in Laibach (German name for Ljubljana, Slovenia). In 1879 he received his doctorate at Graz, and later was an assistant to Simon Schwendener (1829-1919) in Berlin and Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) in Würzburg. In 1888 he founded a botanical institute in Graz, and during the following year became a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck. While at Innsbruck he created a new botanical garden in nearby Hötting. He also worked for a while at the Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg, Netherlands East Indies.

Heinricher is known for his research involving the morphology, developmental history and physiology of parasitic angiosperms, as well as studies of parasitic plants such as mistletoe and toothwort. He also did extensive work in the study of botanical teratology.

• The standard author abbreviation Heinr is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.

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• This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.