Rupert Huter

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Rupert Huter (born September 26, 1834 in Kals in East Tyrol ; † February 11, 1919 in Ried near Sterzing ) was an Austrian Catholic priest , cooperator and botanist . He bequeathed a herbarium important for scientific research to the Vincentinum in Brixen .

Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Huter ".

Live and act

Ruper Huter was born on September 26, 1834 as the son of a farmer in Kals. He attended elementary school in his home village and then the Augustinian grammar school in Brixen in South Tyrol. In 1854 he passed the Matura at the Franziskanergymnasium in Bozen. After completing his theology studies , he was ordained a priest in Brixen on April 25, 1858 . The following year he finished his theological studies in Brixen and became an assistant priest in St. Jakob in Defereggen . He then worked as a cooperator, first from 1861 to 1863 in Ahrn , 1863 to 1864 in Oberlinz , 1864 to 1867 in Obergsies , 1867 to 1871 in Antholz , 1871 to 1877 in Sexten and 1878 to 1881 in Sterzing. In 1881 Huter worked as a branch office in Jaufental until he took up a position as curator in Ried near Sterzing in 1884 , where he remained until his death.

Huter was a passionate plant collector and self-taught in the field of botany and researched the flora of Tyrol and Central Europe. Together with the botanists Pietro Porta (1832-1923) and Giorgio Rigo, he traveled through South Tyrol and in 1877 to southern Italy and in 1879 to Spain . Huter used these trips to add more specimens to his herbaria. There were also finds that Porta and Rigo made on further expeditions to the Balearic Islands (1885). In addition, Huter carried on a lively trade in and bartered with dried plants and from 1862 to 1898 sent corresponding lists to his business partners.

Huter did a great job researching the flora of the Eastern Alps , discovering new locations and species . He was particularly interested in the Tyrolean species of the genera Hieracium and Salix .

Herbarium Huteri

On behalf of Prince-Bishop Vinzenz Gasser , Huter put together a collection of 17,000 different species for the Vincentinum and documented them in a handwritten catalog in 1909. He was sponsored by Professor Johann Vinzens Hofmann and Director Gregor Bechlechner. The Herbarium Huteri contains numerous type specimens, in particular of the Hieracium genus, and is an important source for current research on Central European flora. From 1996 the herbarium was restored and digitized by the Tyrolean State Museum . Since the Vinzentinum could no longer bear the increasing costs, it concluded an agreement with the South Tyrolean provincial government in 2009 , which took over the financing. In return, the state of South Tyrol received the Herbarium Huteri as a free loan for 99 years. From 2011, an additional restoration team at the South Tyrol Museum of Nature participated in the work, which was completed in 2016. The Huteri Herbarium , whose estimated value is around 4 million euros, will be deposited in the Natural History Museum after the construction of a new depot building.

Honors

The plant genus Hutera Porta from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae) is named after Huter .

Fonts

  • Flora of the vascular plants of Höhlenstein and the immediate vicinity. Sexten 1872.
  • Herbarium studies. Vienna 1908.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Huter, Rupert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 19.
  2. ^ Archives of the Franziskanergymnasium
  3. ^ Herbarium Rupert Huter . Vinzentinum , accessed on May 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Huter, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist, priest and cooperator
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Kals
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1919
Place of death Ried near Sterzing