Ferdinand Rugel

Ferdinand Rugel also called Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier (* December 17, 1806 in Wolfegg , † January 31, 1879 in Jefferson County ) was a German-American pharmacist and botanist . He was one of the most important botanical collectors before the American Civil War . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Rugel ".

Life

After school learned Rugel in Weingarten at pharmacists dog's pharmacy . He then worked as an assistant. In 1827 he moved to Bern to work in a pharmacy there. It was there that his interest in botany began and Rugel met the British botanist Robert James Shuttleworth . Rugel carried out various excursions in the Alps, France, the Pyrenees and Sicily.

In 1831 he passed the pharmaceutical state examination in Tübingen . In 1840 he traveled to the United States to collect plants and insects. In the United States he made several trips that took him to Virginia , Tennessee , Florida and Alabama . Rugel married in 1845. He then had a practice as a healer in Dandridge . He later collected in South Florida and Cuba . He then moved to Jefferson County on a farm, where he stayed until his death.

With his collections, Rugel supplied the herbaria of many European botanists. Some parts of his own herbarium ended up in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, others can be found in the London Natural History Museum and the Museum of the Botanical Institute in Bern.

Honors

Several types of plants were named after Rugel, including the Liliaceae Trillium rugelii (= Trillium erectum L. ), which is common in homeopathy . The plant genus Rugelia Shuttlew. ex Chapm. from the daisy family (Asteraceae) was named after him.

literature

Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Supplementary Volume II , p. 198.

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ferdinand Rugel at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Rugel, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rugel, Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfegg
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1879
Place of death	Jefferson County

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .