Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel

Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel (30 July 1812 – 17 December 1841) was a German botanist.

Life He was born in Berlin, and studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium. He learned botany from Johann Friedrich Ruthe. In 1837 he graduated Ph.D. from the University of Berlin with a dissertation on the genus Cassia. He was a privatdozent at Berlin and then from 1839 at the University of Bonn, where he took over duties after the death of Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck. He worked particularly on Brazilian plants, and collaborated with Matthias Jakob Schleiden. In 1840 he worked on the collections of Franz Meyen who had just died. He made collections in Liberia, at Cape Mesurado and elsewhere. His specimens are now at Kew Gardens.

His author abbreviation is Vogel.