> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 584](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190055) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8155-1) LSID 8155-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3365649) QID Q3365649 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rathke, Jens (1769-1855), Norwegian botanist; Mag. theol. Kjøbenhavn 1792; teacher at Christiania (Oslo); professor of zoology at Kjøbenhavn 1810-1813; professor of natural history at Christiania 1813-1845, director of the botanical garden ib. 1816-1843. **Abbreviated name**: *Rathke* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rathke*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]]; some further material at [[Collection B|B]] (200 rd. 1839, probably all destroyed) and [[Collection L|L]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 130 (b. 14 Nov 1769, d. 28 Feb 1855); BM 4: 1648; IH 2: (in press); Jackson p. 414; Kew 4: 409; Kleppa p. 9, 18, 298; PR 7423, ed. 1: 8366; Rehder 1: 40. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 3: 115. 1855 (d.). - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 313. 1938. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 309. 1977. - Hansen, A., Bocagiana 51: 10. 1980 (Madeira coll. C). - Hendriksen, K.L., Entom. Meddel. 15(4): 152-153. 1925 (in rev. of Danish entom. hist.). - Hornemann, J., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 585. 1837 (epon. Rathkea). - Johnson, I.H., Samtiden 63: 551-557. 1954, 64: 213-228. 1955 (biograph. vol.; see also Nordhagen 1954). - Natvig, L.R., Norsk entom. Tidsskr. 7(1/2): 4-5. 1944 (entomology at the royal Frederiks Univ.; biogr. notes, portr.). - Nordhagen, R., Samtiden, Oslo 64: 139-156. 1955 ("Professor Jens Rathke og Henrik Wergelands Blomster"). - Rostrup, E., Dansk biogr. Lex. 13: 524-525. 1899. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 170-171. 1903, 3(3): 184. 1905. #### Eponymy *Rathkea* H.C.F. Schumacher (1827).