Rudolf Raimann (botanist)

Rudolf Raimann (1863 – 5 December 1896 in Vienna) was an Austrian botanist.The American Naturalist, Volume 31

In 1889 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where his influences included botanist Julius Wiesner. He worked as a volunteer in the department of botany at the Imperial Natural History Museum,Das geistige Wien: Künstler- und Schriftsteller-Lexikon, Volume 2 by Ludwig Eisenberg and for a period of time taught classes in natural history at the Handelsakademie (school of business and commerce) in Vienna.Flora der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol, etc. by Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre, Paul Wilhelm Magnus, Ludwig von Sarnthein The plant genus Raimannia (J.N. Rose ex N.L. Britton & A. Brown, 1913) of the family Onagraceae commemorates his name.BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publicationsRaimannia GBIF

Published works He made contributions in regards to the section on Onagraceae in Engler and Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. A few of his other writings include: Mittheilungen über Fichtenformen aus der Umgebung von Lunz (1888). Über unverholzte Elemente in der innersten Xylemzone der Dicotyledonen (1889).Anzeiger, Volumes 25-26 Ueber einige Krankheitserscheinungen der Nadelhölzer (1890).

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