Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (3 May 1833 – 5 April 1873) was a Baltic German botanist who lived and worked mainly in Imperial Russia.
Life and work
[edit]Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was born in Kandava, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia), and studied in Jelgava to become an apothecary. In 1858 he moved to Tartu in present-day Estonia and worked there as an assistant to the head of the Botanical Garden there. In 1858-59 he participated in the Russian Geographical Society's scientific expedition to Khorasan. He then stayed in Tartu until 1872, when he moved to Riga and took up a position at Riga Technical University. The genus Bienertia is named in honour of him by Alexander Bunge.[1]
Selected writings
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Bienert, Theophil Joachim Heinrich". BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital (in German). Baltische Historische Kommission. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Bien.
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