German-born, austrian botanist and pharmacist (1798-1858).
Friedrich Wilhelm Noë (1798 in Berlin – 1858 in Constantinople) was a German-born, Austrian pharmacist and botanist. Prior to 1844, he worked as a pharmacist in Fiume and contributed to the knowledge of its flora by distributing an exsiccata-like specimen series called Plantae Istrianae exsiccatae. At that time he was in close scientific contact with well-known botanists like Ludwig Reichenbach. Afterwards he moved to Constantinople, where he taught classes in botany at the Êcole Impériale de Médicine de Galata Serai and served as director of its botanical garden. He collected plants in the B