Schott was born on 7 January 1794 in
Brno,
Moravia. He studied
botany,
agriculture and
chemistry at the
University of Vienna, where he was a pupil of
Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766–1839). He was a participant in the
Austrian Brazil Expedition from 1817 to 1821. In 1828 he was appointed
Hofgärtner (royal gardener) in
Vienna, later serving as director of the Imperial Gardens at Schönbrunn Palace (1845). In 1852 he was in charge of transforming part of palace gardens in the fashion of an
English garden. He also enriched the Viennese court gardens with his collections from
Brazil. He was also interested in
Alpine flora, and was responsible for development of the
alpinum at
Belvedere Palace in Vienna. In 2008, botanists P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong published
Schottarum, a
genus of
flowering plants from
Borneo belonging to the family
Araceae. Then they published
Schottariella, a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants from Borneo belonging to the family
Araceae, both genera were named in honour of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott. Schott died on 5 March 1865 at
Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, at the age of 71. ==Publications==