Christian Rutenberg

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Diedrich Christian Rutenberg (born June 11, 1851 in Bremen ; † August 25, 1878 with Beravi in Madagascar ) was a German researcher and plant collector. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Rutenb. "

Rutenberg's father was the Bremen builder Lüder Rutenberg . Christian studied medicine and natural sciences in Jena and Heidelberg ; one of his lecturers was Ernst Haeckel . With Haeckel he took part in scientific excursions to Montenegro and Dalmatia in 1872 . After his medical doctorate in 1875, he practiced as an ophthalmologist and worked as a military doctor in Serbia .

In 1877 he traveled to South Africa, where he collected botanical specimens in Natal and Transvaal , before continuing his journey with the same purpose to Mozambique , Mauritius and Madagascar . He first stayed on the north-west coast of Madagascar and then crossed the country to the east of the island, where he settled in Vohémar . On a collection expedition, Rutenberg, 27, was killed by locals near the village of Beravi.

Rutenberg's preparations from Madagascar came into the possession of the Bremen botanist Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau , who wrote a series of treatises under the title " Reliquiae Rutenbergianae ". With other authors, Buchenau described the 605 species in the Rutenberg collection; it contained 168 previously undescribed species and subspecies and five new genera.

The genus Rutenbergia ( Geh. & Hampe ex Besch. , 1880) is named after Rutenberg .

literature

  • Rutenberg's diary entries in: Deutsche Geographische Blätter , Vol. 3. Bremen 1880.
  • Horst Kalthoff: The Rutenbergs: Life in the 19th Century . Kaden-Verlag, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-922777-89-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dictionary of German biography / Plett - Schmidseder (KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co., 2005, English, accessed September 11, 2016)
  2. ↑ Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , page 27 (accessed September 11, 2016)
  3. ↑ a b Rutenberg, Diedrich Christian (1851-1878) (JSTOR Global Plants, English, accessed September 11, 2016)
  4. ^ Wilhelm Olbers Focke : The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings: Festgabe (C. Schünemann, 1890)
  5. ↑ Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types , page 1022 (Biodiversity Heritage Library, English, accessed September 11, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Rutenberg, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rutenberg, Diedrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German researcher and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1878
Place of death Beravi , Madagascar