Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius


Heinrich Bernhard Rupp was a German botanist.
He first studied Medicine in 1704 and met then Johann Jacob Dillenius. 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. Carl von Linné gave tribute to him with the creation of the genus Ruppia of the family Ruppiaceae.

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