Georg Andreas Helwing
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Georg Andreas Helwing (Polish: Jerzy Andrzej Helwing) (14 December 1666 – 3 January 1748) was a botanist and Lutheran pastor.
Helwing was born in Angerburg (Węgorzewo) in Brandenburg-Prussia's Duchy of Prussia. He became a "remote member" of the Prussian Academy of Sciences on 31 August 1709.
Helwing discovered and introduced several plants: Helwingia is named after him. He became known as the Tournefortius Borussicus and Prussian Plinius.
In 1999, the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was founded with reference to him.
It has been suggested that Georg Andreas Helwing was the inspiration for the character Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula.[1]
Works
- Flora Quasimodogenita (in Latin). Gdańsk: Johann Daniel Stolle. 1712.
- Flora Quasimodogenita. Gedani. Leipzig 1713
- Flora Quasimodogenita (in Latin). Vol. Supplementum Florae Prussicae. Gdańsk: Thomas Johann Schreiber. 1726.
- Lithographia Angerburgica, P.I. Regiom. 1717, Leipzig 1720
- Flora Campana. Leipzig 1720
References and external links
- ^ Power, Ed (3 January 2020). "Who is the real van Helsing? The many faces of Dracula's vampire-slaying nemesis". The Telegraph. London.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Helwing.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070622050859/http://www.bbaw.de/archivbbaw/akademiemitglieder/vorgaengermitglieder_h.html
- http://www.litdok.de/cgi-bin/litdok?lang=de&t_idn=yp07560
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