Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser
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Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 – 11 October 1842) was an Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n-born botanist who worked most of his life within the territory of western Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

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The genus Bessera
Bessera
Bessera is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae. A small genus of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms, they are perennials native to Mexico...

and species Aconitum besserianum are named after him.
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