(Mittelherwigsdorf, 1821 - 1895)
"Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 de junio de 1821 - 26 de agosto de 1895) fue un insigne botánico y geógrafo alemán, que adquirió un gran prestigio en su época sobre todo por sus grandes aportes en el campo de la Sistemática vegetal, además de ser un gran divulgador en el terreno de la Patología Vegetal, Geografía y Jardinería. Es sobre todo conocido por ser el autor junto al botánico danés John Lange del Prodromus Florae Hispanicae..., que vio la luz entre los años 1861 y 1880 y que aún hoy es considerada la mejor contribución de su género para la península ibérica."
"Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (June 29, 1821, Herwigsdorf August 26, 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German academic and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Willk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, later being named a professor of natural history in Tharandt (1855). In 1868 he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at the University of Dorpat, and from 1874 to 1892, maintained similar roles at the University of Prague. In 184445 and 185051, he collected plants in Spain and Portugal. His main herbarium from these expeditions is kept in Coimbra and his personal herbarium was taken to Genoa. Following his tenure at Dorpat, he embarked on a scientific excursion to the Balearic Islands. His book Die Wunder des Mikroskops ("The Miracles of the Microscope"; 1856, 4th ed. 1878) contributed to the growing movement to popularize science in Germany. The grass genus Willkommia (family Poaceae) is named in his honor."