Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg

Grass Roots Faith: How Heinrich Muhlenberg Cultivated American Botany

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 17, 1785 On this day, the botanical world welcomed a luminary whose influence would extend far beyond the pulpit – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, a man of God who found divinity in…

White Cloud Today is the day the American Lutheran Pastor and botanist Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg was made a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was always referred to by his second name Heinrich. The Muhlenberg family was a founding family of the United States, and Heinrich came from a long line of pastors.…