> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 796](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190267) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8403-1) LSID 8403-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1619503) QID Q1619503 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rink, Henrik Johannes (1819-1893), Danish (of German parents) geographer, geologist and explorer; Dr. phil. Kiel 1844; participated in the circumnavigation of the *Galathea* 1845-1846 (until Penang), surveying the Nicobars; in Northern Greenland 1848-1855; Royal Inspector (Governor) of South Greenland 1855-1868; Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade (Kön. Grönl. Handel) 1871-1882; retired to Christiania (Oslo). **Abbreviated name**: *Rink* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rink*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]]; further material at [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. – Rink's collections were among those on which J. Lange based his *Consp. pl. Groenl.* 1880-1894, TL-2/4185. Some correspondence at [[Collection S|S]]; other archival material in the Smithsonian Archives SIA 7073. #### Bibliography and biography CSP 5: 209, 8: 752, 11: 186, 12: 620; Herder p. 57; IH 2: (files); Jackson p. 366, 367; Kew 4: 474; PR 7635; Rehder 1: 481. SK 1: 439, 5: cccxiv; TL-2/see J.M.C. Lange. #### Biofile - Anon., Geogr. Jahrb. 19: 385. 1897 (biogr. details and bibl.); b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893); Leopoldina 29: 211. 1893 (obit. not.); Medd. Grønland 16: i-iv. 1896 (obit., portr.); Scott. geogr. Mag. 11: 20. 1895 (obit.). - Brown, R., Geogr. J. 3(1): 65-67. 1894 (obit.). - Christensen, C., Danske bot. hist. 1: 500, 504, 604. 1925, 2: 298-299. 1925 (bibl.; b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893). - Embacher, F., Lex. Reisen 248. 1882. - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. München 16: 423. 1980 (Greenland lich. at M through Deichmann-Brandt and Arnold). - Jørgensen, C.A. et al., Biol. Skr. Dan. Vid. Selsk. 9(4): 5. 1958. - Kornerup, T., Overs. Medd. Grønland 1876-1912: 105. 1913 (bibl.). - Ostermann, H., Dansk biogr. Leks. 19: 560-564. 1940. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1121. 1898 (b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893). - Rydberg, P.A., Augustana Coll. Libr. Publ. 5: 27. 1907. - Steenstrup, K.J.V., Geogr. Tidskr., Kjøbenhavn 12: 162-166. 1894 (obit.). - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 188-189. 1881 (bibl.). ### Publications ##### n.9242. Die Nikobarischen Inseln **Title** *Die Nikobarischen Inseln*. Eine geographische Skizze mit specieller Berücksichtigung der Geognosie... Kopenhagen (Verlag von H.C. Klein...) 1847. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Nikobar. Ins.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1847, frontisp., p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-188, 1 map. *Copies*: GOET (inf. G. Wagenitz). Notes on botany on p. 127-139 (see also Flora 31: 398. 1848). ##### n.9243. Grønland **Title** *Grønland* geografisk og statistisk beskrevet... Kjøbenhavn (I Commission hos Universitetsboghandler Andr. Fred. Høst...) 1852-1857, 2 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Grønland*. **Notes** *1*(*1*): 1852, p.\[i-x\], \[1\]-202, \[203-206\], 1 map, *5 pl*. Botanical notes on p. 154-165; see also W.J. Hooker, J. Bot. 5: 122-124. *1*(*2*): 1855, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-218, \[219-220\], *1 pl*. *2*: 1857, p.\[i\]-v, \[vi\], \[1\]-416, 3 maps, *3 pl*., Naturhistorisk Tillaeg \[1\]-172, in which on p. 106-135, J. Lange, Oversigt over Grønlands planter. *Copies*: H (inf. P. Isoviita), GOET (inf. G. Wagenitz). ##### n.9244. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse af Grønland **Title** *Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse af Grønland*,... Kjøbenhavn (Louis Kleins Bogtryckkeri) 1857. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Naturh. Bidr. Grønland*. **Notes** *Authorship*: J. Reinhardt, J.C. Schiødte, O.M.L. Mørch, C.F. Lütken, J. Lange (botany: p. 106-136) and H.J. Rink. *Publ*.: 1857, p. \[i\], \[1\]-172, map. *Copy*: USDA. – Constitutes vol. 2 of H.J. Rink, *Grønland geografisk og statistisk beskrevet*, Kjøbenhavn 1857. *English translation*: see below, *Danish Greenland*, which has so many alterations that it is virtually a new work. ##### n.9245. Danish Greenland **Title** *Danish Greenland* its people and its products... edited by Dr Robert Brown,... London (Henry S. King & Co.) 1877. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Dan. Greenland*. **Notes** *Editor*: Robert Brown (1842-1895). *Publ*.: Mai-Jun 1877 (Liverpool copy rd 12 Jul 1877; preface dated Mai 1877), p. \[i\]-xvii, map, \[1\]-448, *16 pl. Copies*: H (inf. P. Isoviita), LC, LIV (city libr., inf. J. Edmondson), p. 409-428, Synopsis of the Greenland flora (409-414 Synopsis by J. Lange; 415-422 Catalogue of the cryptogamous plants by R. Brown, 423-428 general remarks on the Greenland flora by R. Brown).