Theophil Bienert
Baltic German pharmacist, botanist and entomologist
About Theophil Bienert
Lived 1833 – 1873 (aged 39). Theophil Bienert was a Russian botanist, entomologist, botanical collector, scientific collector and pharmacist.
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 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.
Selected writings Baltische Flora, enthaltend die in Esth-, Liv- u. Kurland wildwachsenden Samenpflanzen u. höheren Sporenpflanzen (1872)
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Baltic German pharmacist, botanist and entomologist (1833–1873)
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Theophil Bienert was born on 3 May 1833 in Kandava.
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Theophil Bienert died on 5 April 1873 in Riga.
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Theophil Bienert was a botanist, entomologist, botanical collector, scientific collector and pharmacist.
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Theophil Bienert was Russian.
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