Karl Bartholomaeus[1] Heller (20 November 1824 – 14 December 1880) was an Austrian botanist and naturalist who explored Mexico in 1845–48 and published his memoir.[2] In the latter year Johann Jakob Heckel published the livebearing freshwater Green swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri), since the early 20th century a common aquarium fish, from specimens Heller deposited in Vienna. Born in Moravia, Heller was a professor at the Theresianum in Vienna. Among Heller's later works is his defense of Darwinism, Darwin und der Darwinismus, 1869.
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- ^ Carl Bartholomäus is an alternative spelling.
- ^ The English translation of his account of his journeys, Reisen in Mexico in den Jahren 1845–48 (1853) is Terry Rugeley, tr. and ed., Alone in Mexico : The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848. which is volume 40 of Latin American Studies
- ^ International Plant Names Index. C.Heller.