Franz Joseph Ruprecht

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Franz Josef Ruprecht (* 1. November 1814 in Freiburg , Grand Duchy of Baden , † July 23 ^jul. / 4. August 1870 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , also Franz Josef written Russian Франц Иванович Рупрехт / Franz Ivanovich Ruprecht ) was a k. k. Austrian botanist in Russian service. Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Rupr. "

Life

Ruprecht attended grammar school in Prague , where he graduated in 1830 at the age of 16. He then went on to study at the Medical Faculty of the University of Prague , which he finished in 1836. In 1839 he became an employee of the Botanical Museum of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Ruprecht's research trips included the north of the European part of Russia in 1841 and the Caucasus from 1860 to 1862.

Ruprecht became deputy director of the imperial botanical garden in Saint Petersburg in 1851 . In 1853 he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1855 head of the Botanical Museum.

As a connoisseur of the Russian flora , he published a large number of specialist works. The main focus was on the systematics of grasses and aquatic plants.

Honors

Carl Anton von Meyer named the genus Ruprechtia from the knotweed family (Polygonaceae) after him . In 1841 he received the Demidow Prize .

Works (selection)

Tentamen Agrostographiæ universalis (1838)
Bambuseae (1839)
Flores Samojedorum cisuralensium (1845) (= contributions to the botany of the Russian Empire. Second delivery. )

Algæ Ochotenses - The first certain news about the sea of Okhotsk (1850)

Flora boreali-uralensis - About the distribution of plants in the northern Urals (1856)

Flora ingrica (1860)

Flora Caucasi. Pars I (1869)

literature

Ernst Wunschmann: Ruprecht, Franz Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 748-753.
Fedotova AA The Origins of the Russian Chernozem Soil (Black Earth): Franz Joseph Ruprecht's 'Geo-Botanical Researches into the Chernozem' of 1866 [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ruprecht published in the Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg . He wrote in German.
^ A. Huxley (ed.): New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992, Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5
↑ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ruprecht, Franz Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ruprecht, Franz Josef; Ruprecht, Franz Iwanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 1870
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Ruprecht published in the Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg . He wrote in German.

[2] A. Huxley (ed.): New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992, Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5

[Burkhardt_2018-3] 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 .