Werner Rauh

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Werner Rauh (1913 in Niemegk – 7 April 2000 in Heidelberg) was an internationally renowned German botanist and author.

Biography

Born in the town of Niemegk near Bitterfeld, Rauh studied at the University of Halle under the famous morphologist Wilhelm Troll^[1] and received his doctorate in 1937 before coming to the University of Heidelberg two years later. He discovered or described some 1200 genera, species and varieties of plants from Africa, the Americas and Asia. His fields of specialization were the Bromeliads and succulent plants. He was a Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Institute of Plant Systematics and Plant Geography as well as Director of the Heidelberger Botanical Gardens^[2] and authored over 300 scholarly books and articles.^[3] His work on the succulent and xerophytic flora of Madagascar is presented in his two-volume work Succulent and Xerophytic Plants of Madagascar.

Selected publications

Kakteen an ihren Standorten, 1979, ISBN 3-489-51924-8
Die 100 schönsten Kakteen, Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, 1980, ISBN 3-581-66370-8
Die großartige Welt der Sukkulenten, 1979
Schöne Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten, 1967
Bromelien - Tillandsien und andere kulturwürdige Bromelien, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8001-6371-3
Succulent and Xerophytic Plants of Madagascar, Vol. 1 + 2, Strawberry Press, 1995 + 1998, ISBN 0-912647-14-0

Expeditions

1950: Morocco
1954: Peru, Ecuador
1956: Peru
1959/1960: Madagascar, Tasmania, Kenya
1961: Madagascar, South Africa
1963: Madagascar, Comoros
1964: South Africa
1966: Mexico
1967: Peru
1968: South Africa
1969: Madagascar, Comoros
1970: Peru, Mexico
1971: USA
1973: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands Peru, Brazil
1974: Mexico
1975: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama
1976: Peru, Bolivia, Chile
1977: USA Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
1978: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines
1979: Namibia, South Africa
1980: Mexico, Peru, Ecuador
1981: Brazil
1982: USA, Panama, Dominican Republic
1983: Ecuador, Peru, Argentina
1984: Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Panama
1985: USA, Mexico, Peru
1986: Brazil
1994: Madagascar

References

External links

The Werner Rauh Heritage Project (WRHP), http://scriptorium.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?l=en
http://fcbs.org/articles/WernerRauh.htm

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 74247310 LCCN: n83173247 ISNI: 0000 0001 1029 5699 GND: 1012383660 BNF: cb123466822

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Name	Rauh, Werner
Alternative names
Short description	German botanist
Date of birth	1913
Place of birth
Date of death	7 April 2000
Place of death

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