Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (October 30, 1803 - March 12, 1868) was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau.

He worked as a Schulrat (education official) in Breslau, and was the author of several publications of Silesian

Silesian

Silesian or Upper Silesian is considered either a dialect of the Polish language , or a separate Slavic language of the Lechitic group spoken in the region of Silesia...

 flora. He specialized in the study of the willow

Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...

 genus Salix. The plant genus Wimmeria

Wimmeria

Wimmeria is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer .-Species:* W. acapulcensis Lundell* W. acuminata L. O. Williams...

of the family Celastraceae

Celastraceae

The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

 is named after him.

In the field of philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 Wimmer published an edition of Theophrastus

Theophrastus

Theophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...

 titled Theophrasti Eresii Opera quae supersunt omnia.

Selected writings

• Flora Silesiae (Silesian Flora), with Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski
  Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski
  Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski; also Henryk Grabowski was a German botanist and pharmacist of Polish heritage who was a native of Leobschütz ....
  
  (1792-1842), 1827-1829.
• Flora von Schlesien (Flora of Silesia), 1832.
• Phytologiae Aristotelicae fragmenta, 1838.
• Flora von Schlesien preußischen und österreichischen Antheils (Flora of Prussian and Austrian Silesia Antheils), 1840.
• Theophrasti Eresii Opera quae supersunt omnia, 1866
• Salices europaeae, 1866.