Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von Vest (18 November 1776, in Klagenfurt – 15 December 1840, in Graz) was an Austrian physician and botanist.
He studied medicine in Vienna and at the University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1798. After a stint in the military, he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Klagenfurt (1800). From 1804 to 1812 he taught classes in theoretical and practical medicine at the lyceum in Klagenfurt, and afterwards worked as a professor of botany and chemistry at the Johanneum in Graz. In 1829 he was appointed chief regional physician and health advisor to the Styrian government.[1][2]
In 1809 the plant genus Vestia (family Solanaceae) was named on his honor by Carl Ludwig Willdenow.[3]
- ^ Thibaut - Zycha / edited by Walther Killy Dictionary of German Biography
- ^ ADB:Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, S. 651–653.
- ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications