Frédéric Kirschleger
Frédéric R. Kirschleger was a French physician and botanist.
Following studies in Strasbourg, he worked as an intern of pharmacy, first in Ribeauvillé, afterwards in the dispensary at Hôpital Civil of Strasbourg. In 1827-28 he studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate with a thesis on the mineral waters of Vosges. In 1829 he returned to his hometown of Munster as a doctor, resigning from this position several years later in order to become a professor of botany at the school of pharmacy in Strasbourg.
In 1845 he founded the Société d'Horticulture du Bas-Rhin, and in 1862 established the Société philomathique vogésorhénane.
Among his numerous writings is a highly regarded work on the flora of Alsace and neighboring regions, "Flore d’Alsace et des contrées limitrophes", published in three volumes from 1852 to 1862:
- Flore d'Alsace et des contrées limitrophes 1, Les plantes dicotyles pétalées,.
- Flore d'Alsace et des contrées limitrophes 2, Les monochlamydées, les monocotylées, les cryptogames vasculaires,.
- Flore d'Alsace et des contrées limitrophes 3, La géographie botanique des régions rhénano-vosgiennes,.