1. Wilhelm or William Hillebrand was a German physician.
17 Facts About William Hillebrand
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William Hillebrand practiced medicine in several different countries, including for over 20 years in the Hawaiian Islands.
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In 1850, Hillebrand lived at what is Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu and gained acknowledgement as a botanist.
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William Hillebrand was born on November 13,1821, in Nieheim, Province of Westphalia, Prussia.
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William Hillebrand's father was Judge Franz Josef Hillebrand, and mother Louise Pauline Konig.
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William Hillebrand studied medicine at Heidelberg and Berlin, and practiced at Paderborn.
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William Hillebrand then went to San Francisco and finally arrived in the Hawaii on December 22,1850.
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William Hillebrand stayed for a little over 20 years and made significant contributions to local medical practice.
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William Hillebrand was able to speak the Hawaiian language as well as his native German, English, Latin, and French.
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William Hillebrand went into practice with Dr Wesley Newcomb, and married his stepdaughter Anna Post on November 16,1852.
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In 1853, William Hillebrand purchased 13 acres of land from Queen Kalama, just a short distance from where he worked.
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William Hillebrand had a keen interest in plants, and over the years, planted a number of exotic and native trees in his garden.
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William Hillebrand served as chief physician at The Queen's Hospital, from 1860 to 1871.
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William Hillebrand had three main goals: to find sources of labor for the sugarcane plantations, to learn about the latest treatments for leprosy, and to collect and import plants and animals that would be useful to the Islands.
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William Hillebrand wrote an article on leprosy that was published in 1883.
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William Hillebrand is the father of William Francis Hillebrand, an American chemist.
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Specimens collected by William Hillebrand are cared for at herbaria worldwide, including the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.