Franz Josef Ruprecht
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Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814-1870) was a Austrian-born botanist and physician, who worked mainly in Russia, where he was appointed curator of the herbarium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1839, then assistant director of the St. Petersburg botanical gardens between 1851 and 1855, and professor of botany in 1855 at the University of St. Petersburg.[1]
He described many new plants collected in the Russian Far East, including Alaska, then under Russian rule; examples include Adiantum aleuticum, Lonicera maackii, and Phellodendron amurense.
The genus Ruprechtia is named after him.[2] The standard author abbreviation Rupr. is applied to species he described.
[edit] References
- ^ Darwin Correspondence: Franz Josef Ruprecht
- ^ Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
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