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Austrian-born physician and botanist
Franz Josef Ruprecht
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Born
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1814-11-01
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1 November 1814
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Died
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(1870-04-04)
(aged 55)
Saint Petersburg
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Franz Josef Ruprecht
(1 November 1814 ? 4 April 1870) was an
Austrian
-born physician and
botanist
active in the
Russian Empire
, where he was known as
Frants Ivanovi? Ruprekht
(Russian:
Франц Ива?нович Ру?прехт
).
Life
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He was born in
Freiburg im Breisgau
, and grew up in
Prague
, where he studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836. After a short period in medical practice in Prague, he was appointed curator of the herbarium of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
in
Saint Petersburg
in 1839.
In July and August 1841, together with a colleague, professor Sawelhaw of the Russian Academy, he organised and accompanied an expedition to the island to
Kolguyev Island
in the
Barents Sea
.
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He served as assistant director of the
Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
between 1851 and 1855, and professor of botany in 1855 at the
University of Saint Petersburg
.
[2]
He died in Saint Petersburg in 1870.
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
.
Memorials
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The genus
Ruprechtia
is named after him.
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Publications
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- Ruprecht, F. J.
Symbolae ad historiam et geographiam plantarum Rossicarum
, St. Petersburg in 1846
- Ruprecht, F. J.
Flora Caucasi
, P. 1. St. Petersbourg 1869
- Postels, A., Ruprecht, F.J.
Illustrationes algarum
, Weinheim, J. Cramer 1963
- Ruprecht, F. J.
Flora ingrica
(flora of the Leningrad region).
References
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- Extensive biography on Allg. Deutsche Biographie
[1]
[
permanent dead link
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- Fedotova A.A. The Origins of the Russian Chernozem Soil (Black Earth): Franz Joseph Ruprecht's ‘Geo-Botanical Researches
into the Chernozem’ of 1866]]
, Environment and History, 16 (2010): 271?293
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