Lewis David de Schweinitz

Lewis David de Schweinitz
Frontispiece from A Memoir of the Late Lewis David von Schweinitz, P.D. by Walter Rogers Johnson (1835)
Born(1780-02-13)13 February 1780
Died8 February 1834(1834-02-08) (aged 53)
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
NationalityGerman-American
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, mycology
Author abbrev. (botany)Schwein.

Lewis David de Schweinitz (13 February 1780 – 8 February 1834) was a German-American botanist and mycologist from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Considered the "Father of North American Mycology,"[1] he also made significant contributions to botany.

  1. ^ Stuckey, R.L. (1979). Type specimens of flowering plants from Eastern North America in the Herbarium of Lewis David von Schweinitz. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 131:9-51.