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Ernst Bernhard Heyne (September 15, 1825 Meissen/Germany - October 16, 1881 Norwood SA)
South Australian nurseryman and author

[From Encyclopedia of Australian Science:] Ernst Heyne was secretary to von Mueller at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1853-1868. He went with von Mueller on several Victorian expeditions and helped to classify much of the botanical material collected by von Mueller in the 1850s.
Born Meissen, Saxony, 15 September 1825. Died Norwood, South Australia, 16 October 1881. Educated University of Leipzig (diploma in botany). Royal Botanic Gardens, Dresden, arrived Melbourne in the 1849, chief plantsman, Melbourne Botanic Gardens 185?-52, secretary to Mueller 1853-69, to Adelaide January 1869, established nursery at Hackney, near Adelaide, and a shop for seeds and plants in Rundle Street, Adelaide, worked until he became ill with asthma..