Karl Rechinger

Karl Rechinger (1867–1952) was an Austrian botanist born in Vienna. He was the father of botanist Karl Heinz Rechinger (1906-1998).

He studied at the University of Vienna, and from 1902 to 1922 was a museum curator at the botanical division of the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum. In 1905 with his wife Lily Rechinger-Favarger (1880-1973), he participated on an expedition to Oceania, where he performed botanical research in Samoa, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. As a result of the journey he published the following two works:

Deutsch Neu-Guinea. Streifzüge in Deutsch Neu-Guinea and auf den Salomons-Inseln, (1908)
Botanische and zoologische Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Forschungsreise nach den Samoa-Inseln, dem Neuguinea-Archipel and den Salomons-Inseln, (1908-15)

The standard author abbreviation Rech. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

Biography of Charles Rehinger @ Nationaal Herbarium Nederland

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Rechinger, Karl
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Date of birth	1867
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Date of death	1952
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