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### Author
Ruhland, Wilhelm \[Willy\] Otto Eugen (1878-1960), German (Schleswig) botanist; student of A. Engler at Berlin; Dr. phil. 1899; collaborator at the Botanical Museum ib. 1899-1903; Privatdocent Univ. Berlin 1903-1911; assistant at the Biologische Reichsanstalt Berlin-Dahlem 1905-1911; extraordinary professor of botany at Halle 1911-1918; full professor of botany at Tübingen Univ. 1918-1922; professor of botany and director of the botanical garden and institute of the University of Leipzig 1922-1945; honorary professor at Erlangen 1948-1956; Dr. h.c. Erlangen 1949.
**Abbreviated name**: *Ruhland* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ruhland*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Types at [[Collection B|B]] (partly destroyed).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 191 (b. 7 Aug 1878, d. 5 Jun 1960); BFM p. 313 (index); Biol.-Dokum. 15: 7747; BJI 1: 49-50, 2: 150; BM 4: 1764, 8: 1110; Bossert p. 342; Kelly p. 201; LS 23225-23235, 38640-38648; Moebius p. 105, 121, 247, 248, 252, 254; MW p. 420; Stevenson p. 1256; TL-2/1711, 1713; Urban-Berl. p. 281, 312, 390; Zander ed. 11, p. 809; Zep-Tim p. 97.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 99: 176. 1905 ("Hilfsarbeiter" Kais. Biol.-Anst. Berlin-Dahlem), 117: 560. 1911 (to Halle), 119: 160. 1912 (id.); Bot. Zeit. 41: 47. (travels in the Cyrenaica, collects for Ascherson), 672 (d. 23 Aug 1883) 1883.; Hedwigia 45: (38). 1906 (asst. Kais. Biol. Anst. Berlin-Dahlem), 51: (244). 1911 (app. Regierungsrat and member of the Kais. Biol. Anstalt Berlin-Dahlem) 1911, 60: (178). 1918 (app. Tübingen), 64(1): (70). 1923 (to Leipzig), 78: (75). 1938 (corr. member Akad. Berlin); Nat. Nov. 25: 197. 1903 (habil. Berlin), 33: 551. 1911 (to Halle, "Otto Ruhland"), 40: 372. 1918 (app. Tübingen), 43: 175. 1921 (call to Heidelberg); Österr. bot. Z. 61: 495. 1911 (app. Halle, succeeding Fitting), 71: 152. 1922 (app. Leipzig).
- Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 97. 1978.
- Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 233, 237. 1938.
- Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 212, 214, 291. 1973.
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 6: 2241-2242. 1938, 7a(3): 849. 1959 (biogr. detail, bibl., secondary refs.).
- Renner, O., Z. Naturforsch. 3b: 141-144. 1948, Planta 36: \[portr., facs\]. 1948.
- Schumacher, W., Planta 52: 1-2. 1958 (tribute, portr.), 54(5): portr. 1960.
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 154, 168. 1935, 3: 122, 126, 137, 147. 1937, 4: 85. 1938, 5: 119. 1939.
#### Composite works
- (1) *Eriocaulaceae, in* A. Engler, Pflanzenreich 13(4, 30): 1-294. 27 Mar 1903 (rev. K. Schumann, Bot. Centralbl. 93, 120-122. 1903.
- (2) *Eriocaulaceae, in* J. Perkins, Fragm. Fl. Philip. 139. 1904.
- (3) *Eriocaulaceae, in* I. Urban, Symb. ant. 1(3): 472-494. 15 Jan 1900.
- (4) *Eriocaulaceae, in* EP, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 15a: 39-57. 1930.
- (5) *Sphagnales, Andreales, Bryales* (gen.) in EP, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 10: 101-105, 126-128, 132-142. 1924.
- (6) *Ergebnisse der Biologie*, eds., K. v. Frisch... W. Ruhland, vol. 1, 1926.
- (7) Founder, with Hans Winkler, of *Planta*; editor vols. 1-51. 1925-1958.
#### Handwriting
Planta 54: 445. 1960.
#### Eponymy
*Ruhlandiella* Hennings (1903).