Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier
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Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier (1833–1906) was a German physician and botanist who was a native of Sulzbach
Sulzbach an der Murr
Sulzbach an der Murr is a town in the district of Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Geography :The resort town of Sulzbach an der Murr is in the Murr Valley at an elevation of 268 to 520 meters....

, Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

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In 1857 he earned his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, and later was a military doctor in Ulm
Ulm
Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...

. In 1864 he received his habilitation at Tübingen
Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

, where in 1866 he became an associate professor of botany.

Hegelmaier was an authority on the plant family Lemnaceae, and in 1868 published the treatise Die Lemnaceen: Eine monographische Untersuchung.
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