Max Ernst Wichura (1817–66)

German lawyer and botanist. Prussian government official in Breslau (Wrocław), 1859–66. Devoted his spare time to botany and made frequent excursions to study European flora. Published a number of papers, including one on dimorphism in Scabiosa and Lythrum (‘Ueber unvollkommene Diklinie’, Jahresberichte der schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur 36 (1858): 65–6), and a major work on hybridisation, Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich erläutert an den Bastarden der Weiden (1865).