Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Gießen, Hesse, Germany
About Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius
- Heinrich Bernhard Rupp (or Ruppius) (born 22 August 1688 in Giessen, died 7 March 1719 in Jena) was a German botanist. He first studied Medicine in 1704 and met then Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684-1747).
- He first studied in Iena in 1711, then in Leiden in 1712 then back in Jena in 1713. Rupp wrote a flora about plants around Jena and part of Thuringia.
- He published the two first parts but his work is finished after his death by Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777).
- Carl von Linné (1707-1778) gave tribute to him with the creation of the genus Ruppia of the family Ruppiaceae.
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