Genus Vogelia

Probably for Benedict Christian Vogel (1745–1825), Bavarian botanist and physician. He became a professor of botany at the University of Altdorf in 1767 or 1768, and worked in the botanical garden of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1769–1809. He was the author of a number of books, including Supplementum Plantarum Selectarum, a work written with Georg Dionysius Ehret, Johann Elias Haid and Christoph Jacob Trew, which Linnaeus described as one of ‘[t]he miracles of our century in the natural sciences’, referring especially to Ehret’s illustrations. One of Vogel’s interests was nosology (the study of disease and how this can be classified in order to come to a better understanding of it).