Eduard Fenzl
Eduard Fenzl was an Austrian botanist.
Life and contributions
An obituary notes " was Professor of Botany and Director of the Imperial Botanical Cabinet, a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and Vice-President of the Vienna Horticultural Society."Fenzl made contributions towards Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's Flora Brasiliensis and to Stephan Endlicher's Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum [et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel|Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae], etc. He was the author of Pugillus plantarum novarum Syriæ et Tauri occidentalis primus.
The plant genus Fenzlia is named in his honor.