Leopold Quehl
Leopold Quehl was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.
Biography
Quehl was born in Halle an der Saale, Germany in 1849. He was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium. He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.Quehl was a founding member of Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft.