Georg Andreas Helwing

Georg Andreas Helwing was a botanist and Lutheran pastor.
Helwing was born in Angerburg in Brandenburg-Prussia's Duchy of Prussia. He became a "remote member" of the Prussian Academy of Sciences on 31 August 1709.
Helwing discovered and introduced several plants: Helwingia is named after him. He became known as the Tournefortius Borussicus and Prussian Plinius.
In 1999, the University of [Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn] was founded with reference to him.
It has been suggested that Georg Andreas Helwing was the inspiration for the character Abraham [Van Helsing] in Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula.

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