Chrétien Géofroy Nestler


Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler, was an Alsatian botanist and pharmacist.
He studied under Louis Claude Richard in Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist. He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the University of Strasbourg and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the botanical garden at Strasbourg.
As a taxonomist, he described a number of species within the genus Potentilla. The genus Nestlera was named in his honor by Kurt Sprengel.

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