Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler (1 March 1778,
Strasbourg – 2 October 1832), was an
Alsatianbotanist and
pharmacist.
He studied under
Louis Claude Richard in
Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist.[1] He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the
University of Strasbourg and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the
botanical garden at Strasbourg.[2]
"Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm-Philippe Schimper (1854).[5]