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Franz Josef Ruprecht

Austrian-born physician and botanist

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Franz Josef Ruprecht
Born	(1814-11-01)1 November 1814 Freiburg im Breisgau
Died	4 April 1870(1870-04-04) (aged 55) Saint Petersburg

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 Ivanovič Ruprekht (Russian: Франц Ива́нович Ру́прехт).

Life[edit]

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 SciencesinSaint 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.^[1]

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[edit]

The genus Ruprechtia is named after him.^[3]

Publications[edit]

• Ruprecht, F. J. Symbolae ad historiam et geographiam plantarum Rossicarum, St. Petersburg in 1846
• Ruprecht, F. J. Flora Caucasi, P. 1. St. Pétersbourg 1869
• Postels, A., Ruprecht, F.J. Illustrationes algarum, Weinheim, J. Cramer 1963
• Ruprecht, F. J. Flora ingrica (flora of the Leningrad region).

References[edit]

• Extensive biography on Allg. Deutsche Biographie [1]^{[permanent dead link]}
• 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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