Ernst Wilczek

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Ernst Wilczek (1867–1948) was a Swiss botanist and pharmacist. He earned his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1892 and became an associate professor of systematic and pharmaceutical botany at the University of Lausanne. From 1902 to 1934 he was a full professor there, and in 1910 he was named director of the School of Pharmacy in Lausanne. He also directed the Pont de Nant Alpine Garden until his retirement in 1934, when he became professor emeritus.

As a botanist, Wilczek traveled widely. He crossed the Andes in Argentina in 1897–98, and in 1898 he collected plants in Corsica and the Maritime Alps with Emile Burnat. Later he studied North African flora, making seven trips to Morocco between 1921 and 1936. He contributed to Schinz and Keller's Flore de la Suisse and worked with Robert Chodat on Contributions à la flore de la République Argentine. In 1925 Charles Meylan named the genus Wilczekia in his honor.