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William Hillebrand
Family Name: Hillebrand  Variant Spellings: Hillebrandt 
Given Names: William
DOB 13 November 1821
DOD 13 July 1886 
Place of Birth: Nieheim, Westphalia, Prussia
Place of Death: Heidelberg, Germany 
Age at Death:
School:
University:  
Qualifications: MD Berlin 1844
Speciality:  
Other Occupations: Botanist
Spouse: Anna Post
Children: Willam Francis
Henry Thomas
Voyages: "Godeffroy" arr Port Phillip from Hamburg 11 February 1849
Came out as:  
Date Settled Aus: 1849
Date of Departure:  
First Registered: 1849 SA No.41
Off Register:  
Addresses: Germany 1848 (shipping record)
  • South Australia 1849 (Medical Register)
  • Manila, Philippines 1849 (Kraehenbuehl)
  • Positions Held: Head physician, Queen Emma Hospital, Hawaii 1860
  • Member of the Board of Health in 1863
  • Physician at the Insane Asylum 1868
  • Commissioner of Immigration
  • Publications: Flora of the Hawaiian islands. London and New York, 1888
    Notes:
    Acknowledgments:
    References: Jennings R. Annotated list of registered medical practitioners South Australia 1844-1918. Adelaide, 1994 [registered 3 April 1849 MD Berlin 1844]
  • Pearn J. Medicine and Botany. Brisbane, 1990
  • Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane, 2001
  • Australian National Herbarium. Biography website
  • Cleland JB. First fifty-two names in the medical register of South Australia Medical Journal Australia 1938; ii: 737
  • Hughes IA Passengers to Port Phillip from Commonwealth and Foreign Ports, 1981
  • Kraehenbuehl DN. Dr. H. H. Behr's two visits to South Australia 1844-45 and 1848-49. Journal of the Adelaide Botanical Gardens 1981;3(1):101-23 [accompanied Behr from SA to Manila late 1849]
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