Simon Schwendener
Swiss botanist
Simon Schwendener was a Swiss botanist who was a native of Buchs in the Canton of St. Gallen.
In 1856 he received his doctorate at the University of Zurich, where afterwards he was an assistant to Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli. Wikipedia
Born: February 10, 1829, Buchs, Switzerland
Died: May 27, 1919 (age 90 years), Berlin, Germany