Karl Theodor Rümpler

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Karl Theodor Rümpler (* 1817 in Alterstedt ; † May 23, 1891 in Erfurt ) was a German horticultural teacher and writer who also worked as a botanist , although he had no appropriate training. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Rümpler ".

Life

Rümpler was a son of Carl Christoph Rümpler, cantor and schoolmaster of Alterstedt, who also worked as a local writer, and his wife, the tailor's daughter Juliane Sophie Hildebrand from Thamsbrück.

He attended the grammar school in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , where Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers was his classmate. Already at the age of 13 he discovered his love for plants, in particular for perennials, ornamental shrubs and cacti, went on botanical excursions, set up a herbarium and practiced self-printing by nature . He did not take up the theology studies that his parents had planned and, like his father, became a teacher. He had his first teaching positions near Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains and in the Thuringian Forest. In his spare time he botanized in these areas. In the meantime, he managed to attend lectures at Berlin University for two semesters and to learn English and French.

In Berlin he sought contact with the Botanical Garden and was finally hired in 1852 at the gardening college in Erfurt as a teacher for the auxiliary sciences of horticulture. The institution was dissolved again after seven years of existence. Rümpler worked for two years for the commercial gardener Döring in Hochheim near Erfurt before he became secretary of the Erfurt horticultural association and the agricultural district association in 1860. In 1873 he was appointed director of the newly founded agricultural school in Erfurt.

Literary work

Publications in the 19th century

In 1846 he edited the manual of Cacteenkunde by Carl Friedrich Förster . According to his own statements, he also wrote works of an educational nature in 1848/49. 1856–58 he edited the general gazette for art and commercial gardening published by the Erfurt commercial gardener Alfred Topf . He then took over the Erfurt General Gazette for Art and Commercial Horticulture , which was closed again in 1861. In 1863, Rümpler founded a German garden newspaper that existed until 1871.

His first gardening books were called Die Dilettanten-Gärtnerei (1856) and Der Rosengärtner (1857), which appeared under the name of Topf and met with approval. Erfurts Land- und Gartenbau appeared in 1865, and in 1870 fruit growing in the country under its own name. In 1873/74 the Paul Parey publishing house commissioned him with the translation of Vilmorin's flower gardening , which made him known in the German-speaking world.

This was followed by an illustrated wood book by Julius Hartwig (revised 1875), the garden flowers (1876), the illustrated vegetable and fruit gardening ( 1879), and Schmidlin's garden book (revised 1883).

His main work is the Illustrated Horticultural Lexicon (1882).

His book Die Stauden (1887) set the trend for the use of perennials in the 20th century . Most recently Die Zimmergärtnerei (1884) and Die Sukkulenten (posthumously 1892) appeared.

Publications in the 20th century

Several of his books were reprinted well into the 1920s.

The Central Antiquariat of the GDR published a reprint edition of the Cacteenkunde manual in Leipzig in 1987 under the title Handbuch der Kakteenkunde in its entirety based on a copy from 1886, supplemented by a foreword by Gottfried Gutte. It was unusual for the time that the book published in the GDR already had an ISBN (it's ISBN 3-7463-0066-5 ), which was rare for books in the GDR. Both Carl Friedrich Förster and Theodor Rümpler appear as authors on the title (the German National Library makes the table of contents of the reprint edition available online as a pdf).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Illustrated horticultural lexicon
  2. ↑ DNB 900901845/04

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personal data
SURNAME Rümpler, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Alterstedt
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1891
Place of death Erfurt