Genus Schoenefeldia

For Wladimir de Schoenefeld (1816–1875), German-born French botanist and pteridologist of Russian parentage. Seemingly, when only one year old, he became an orphan and went to live with the botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788–1850) in Berlin until he was 24, and from whom he developed an interest in botany. In 1840, he returned to Paris, where he took botanical lessons from Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, the French physician and botanist. In Paris, he networked with a number of other botanists and was one of the 15 members who founded the Société Botanique de France in 1854, of which he became the secretary general from 1862 to 1875.