> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 473](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189944) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12250-1) LSID 12250-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5981499) QID Q5981499 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rach, Louis Theodor (1821-1859), German-born botanist and gardener; studied at the horticultural school of Schöneberg 1836-1840; at Berlin-Dahlem 1847-1850, 1852-1856; curator at the St. Petersburg botanical garden, in charge of the carpological and dendrological collections, 1856-1859. **Abbreviated name**: *Rach* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rach*\] #### Herbarium and types Some material (was) at [[Collection B|B]]. – *Continued on p. 529*. *Note*: For *Lydia Rabinowitsch* and the first part of the entry on *Louis Theodor Rach* see page 473. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 122 (b. 16 Jan 1821, d. 28 Apr 1859); BM 4: 1636; CSP 5: 71; Herder p. 162, 318; Hortus 3: 1202; MW p. 398, 408; Rehder 2: 657, 5: 699; Urban-Berl. p. 386; Zander ed. 10, p. 704, ed. 11, p. 803; Zep-Tim p. 95. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 3: 288. 15 Oct 1855 (rev. of his Ericaceen Thunberg), 4: 240, 282. 1856 (app. St. Petersb.); Bot. Zeit. 14: 624. 1856 (app. St. Petersburg), 17: 328. 1859 (d. 28 Apr 1859); Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 440. 1859 (obit.); Österr. bot. W. 6: 278. 1856 (app. St. Petersb.). - Ascherson, P., Fl. Prov. Brandenburg 1: 10. 1864. - Cohn, F., Bot. Zeit. 18: 141. 1860. - Lipsky, V.I., Imp. St. Petersb. bot. sada 3: 406-407. 1915 (biogr. sketch; bibl.). - Rach, L., Die Ericaceen der Thunberg'schen Sammlung. Linnaea 26: 767-793. Sep 1855 (repr. rev. Bonplandia 15 Oct 1855). - Regel, E., Gartennora 8: 192. 1859 (obit. notice). #### Composite works With E.A. Regel and F. v. Herder, *Verzeichniss der von Herrn Paullowsky und Herrn von Stubendorf in den Jahren 1857/58 zwischen Jakutzk und Ajan gesammelten Pflanzen*. 1859; see under E.A. Regel. #### Eponymy *Rachia* Klotzsch 1854.