Heinrich Robert Goeppert (1800–84)

German botanist. MD, Berlin, 1825. Lecturer in the faculty of medicine and assistant at the botanical garden, University of Breslau, 1827; professor extraordinarius, 1831; professor, 1839; professor of botany and director of the botanical garden, 1852. Worked on the influence of temperature and injury on plants, and on the palaeobotany of Carboniferous, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Tertiary floras.