Heinrich Schrader (botanist)

Heinrich Adolf Schrader (1767 to 1836) was a German botanist and mycologist, born in Alfeld near Hildesheim. He studied medicine early in life and received his medical doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1795. In 1803 he became an associate professor in the medical faculty at Göttingen and director of the botanical garden, and in 1809 he attained the title of full professor and taught there until his retirement. In 1797 he named the Australian plant genus Hakea. Among his better known publications are Nova genera plantarum of 1797 and Flora germanica of 1806, and he issued an exsiccata series of cryptogamic plants. The plant genus Schraderanthus is named in his honour, and he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1815. One of his pupils at Göttingen was the botanist Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth.