Wilhelm Mönkemeyer

Wilhelm Mönkemeyer (24 December 1862, in Stadtoldendorf – 1 March 1938, in Leipzig) was a German bryologist.

In 1883–85 he worked as a botanical collector in tropical Africa (present-day Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria). In 1887 he began work as an ''Obergehilfe'' (upper assistant) at the botanical garden of Göttingen and from 1889 to 1928 served as a garden inspector at the botanical garden in Leipzig.

His moss herbarium was sold to the Botanical Institute in Hamburg. Taxa with the specific epithet of ''moenkemeyeri'' commemorate his name, an example being ''Riccia moenkemeyeri''. Provided by Wikipedia