Christian Rutenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist and explorer
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Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
About Christian Rutenberg
- Diedrich Christian Rutenberg (11 June 1851, Bremen – 25 August 1878) was a German explorer and botanical collector.He studied medicine and natural sciences at Jena and Heidelberg, where one of his instructors was Ernst Haeckel.
- In 1872, with Haeckel, he participated in scientific investigations in Montenegro and Dalmatia.
- After obtaining his medical doctorate (1875), he trained as an ophthalmologist and spent time as a military physician in Serbia.In 1877, he journeyed to South Africa, collecting botanical specimens in Natal and Transvaal, then travelling to Mozambique, Mauritius and Madagascar.
- He collected specimens on the northwestern coast of Madagascar prior to crossing the island to the eastern side near the village of Beravi.
- At the age of 27, he was murdered by local inhabitants in Madagascar.His specimens from Madagascar eventually came into the possession of Bremen botanist Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau, who issued a series of papers titled "Reliquiae Rutenbergianae".
- Here, he along with numerous other authors described Rutenberg's collections (605 total species, 5 new genera and 168 new species and varieties).
- The genus Rutenbergia (Geh.
- & Hampe ex Besch., 1880) is named after him.
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