August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel

August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen – 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.

He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797.^[1] Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.^[2]

He described a number of plant species,^[3] and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).^[4] The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.^[5]

Principal works

• Primitiae florae Werthemensis, 1799.
• Beyträge zur Beförderung der Pflanzenkunde: Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, 1800 - Contributions to the advancement of botany.^[6]