Gustav Schübler

Gustav Schübler was a German naturalist and the founder of applied meteorology in Germany, born in 1787 and died in 1834. In 1817 he became professor of botany, natural history and agricultural chemistry at the University of Tübingen. He worked on identifying and classifying new species, many of them with his colleague Georg Matthias von Martens. His writings include the Grundsätze der Meteorologie of 1831, on the principles of meteorology as applied to the climate of Germany, studies of the distribution of colour and scent in the madder family Rubiaceae in 1831, a study of the colour changes of flowers in 1833, and, with von Martens, the Flora von Württemberg of 1834. The standard botanical author abbreviation Schübl. marks the plants he described.