Species Schweiggera nemorosa

For August Friedrich Schweigger (1783–1821), German naturalist, professor of botany and medicine at the University of Königsberg, and his younger brother, Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779–1857), chemist, physicist and professor of mathematics, who developed the first sensitive galvanometer. AF Schweigger studied medicine, zoology and botany at Erlangen, and after his graduation, spent some time in Berlin (from 1804) and in Paris (1806) before becoming a professor (1809). Throughout his life, he maintained a keen interest in botany, writing Specimen Flora Erlangensis (1805) and De Plantarum Classificatione Naturalis (The Natural Classification of Plants) (1821); but he wrote on his other interests as well. In 1815, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. On a research trip to Sicily, he was murdered near Agrigento.