Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert

Baltic German botanist

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.^[1]

Selected writings

Baltische Flora, enthaltend die in Esth-, Liv- u. Kurland wildwachsenden Samenpflanzen u. höheren Sporenpflanzen (1872)

The standard author abbreviation Bien. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

^ "Bienert, Theophil Joachim Heinrich". BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital (in German). Baltische Historische Kommission. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
^ International Plant Names Index. Bien.