Heinrich Bernhard Rupp

Heinrich Bernhard Rupp (or Ruppius ) is a German Botaniste , born in 1688 with Giessen and died in 1719 with Iéna.

It starts to study the Médecine in 1704 and meets then Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684-1747). He studies at the university of Iéna in 1711, with that of Leyde in 1712 then again with Iéna in 1713.

Rupp writes a flora of the surroundings of Iéna and most of the Thuringe. It makes appear the first two parts but its text is finished after its death by Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777). Carl von Linné (1707-1778) dedicates the to him Ruppia of Ruppiaceae.

Works

  • sive Flora Jenensis enumeratio plantarum tam sponte circa Jenam and in locis vicinis nascentium, quam in hortis obviarum: methodo conveniente in classes distributa, figurisque rariorum aeneis ornata; in usum botanophilorum Jenensium published multisque in locis correcta and aucta. (Francfort-sur-le-Main and Leipzig, 1726).
  • Alberti To haul Flora Jenensis Henrici Bernhardi Ruppii, ex posthumis auctoris schedis and propriis observationibus aucta and emendata; accesserunt plantarum rariorum novae icons. (Iéna, 1745).

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