Theophil Bienert

Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert ( Russian Теофил Йоахим Генрих Бинерт ; April 21 ^{. Jul} / 3. May  1833 ^greg. In Kandau , † March 24 ^jul. / 5. April  1873 ^greg. In Riga ) was a German - Russian botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is "Bien."

Life

Origin and family

Theophilus was a son of Courland pharmacist assistants Eberhard Gottfried Bienert and Wilhelmine Charlotte, nee Schmidt. He married Emilie Brehm from Riga in 1862.

Career

Bienert attended the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Mitau in 1848 and then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist. In 1854 he worked as a pharmacist's assistant. Since 1857 he studied pharmacy and won a gold medal. In 1858 he was provisional and assistant to the director of the Botanical Garden in Dorpat , Alexander von Bunge . In 1858 and 1859, Bienert took part in an expedition of the Russian Geographical Society led by Nikolai Vladimirovich Chanykow to Khorasan . From 1862 to 1868 he was the owner of a pharmacy in Dorpat. After completing his master's degree in botany in 1872, he was a lecturer in botany at the Riga Polytechnic from 1872 to 1873 .

Works

• Lepidopterological results of a trip to Persia in 1858 and 1859 , 1869/1871
• Baltic flora, containing those in Esth-, Liv- u. Kurland wild seed plants u. higher spore plants , Dorpat 1872 ( digitized version of the University of Tartu )

Name donors

Various organisms were named after Bienert, including:

• the tribe Bienertieae Ulbr. and the associated genus Bienertia Bunge from the subfamily Suaedoideae of the foxtail family ( Amaranthaceae )
• the species Prionus bienerti Heyden , the genus Prionus of the longhorn beetle family ( Cerambycidae )
• the species Arctium bienertii Kuntze from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae )
• the species Cousinia bienerti Bunge from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae )
• the species Astracantha bienerti ( Bunge ) Podlech from the legume family ( Fabaceae )
• the species Adonis bienertii Butkow ex Riedl from the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae )

literature

• Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 491, no.6723

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Theophil Bienert. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Biographies of the Entomologists of the World (with portrait)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bienert, Theophil (-1873) on the International Plant Names Index page - Retrieved June 5, 2019.