> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 978](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190449) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12799-1) LSID 12799-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60542) QID Q60542 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rüppell \[Rüppel\], \[Wilhelm Peter\] Eduard \[Simon\] (1794-1884), German (Frankfurt) zoologist, mineralogist and explorer; studied at Pavia 1817-1821; Dr. med. h.c. Giessen 1827; travelled in Egypt and Nubia 1817, 1822-1827, and Arabia and Ethiopia 1831-1834, Italy 1816-1817, 1844 and Egypt 1850; donated his archeological, mineralogical and natural history collections to the Senckenbergische Gesellschaft at Frankfurt; curator of these collections 1841-1843, 1846-1847, 1854-1855 and 1858-1859; later especially active as numismatologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Rüppell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rüppell*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FR|FR]]; some orchids in [[Collection W|W]]. #### Note For the rich biographical and other literature on Rüppell we refer to Poggendorff (7a, 1971). – We follow the main biographer, R. Mertens (1949), in accepting the generally used spelling "Rüppell"; however, Poggendorff insists "Rüppel, nicht Rüppell". #### Bibliography and biography ADB 29: 707-714 (W. Strieker); AG 4: 566; Backer p. 503 (epon.); Barnhart 3: 190 (b. 20 Nov 1794, d. 10 Dec 1884), 192 (err. as Ruppel); BM 4: 1762-1763; CSP 5: 337-339; Herder p. 58; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 341, 2: (files); Lasègue p. 333, 437, 504; PR ed. 1: 8851; Rehder 1: 487. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 6: 51. 1858 (Leopoldina cogn. Bruce); Flora 12: 93. 1829 (goes to Ethiopia), 15: 36. 1832 (colls. rd.), 17(1): 46. 1834 (news from Ethiopia), 192. 28 Mar 1834 (back in Italy), 18(2): 661. 1835; Ibis ser. 5. 3: 238, 336-338. 1885 (obit.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883/1886: 106. 1886 (obit.). - Blatter, E., Rec. Bot. Surv. India 8(5): 464. 1933. - Blum, J., Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Abh. 1901: 18. - Boissier, E., Fl. Orient. 1: xxi. 1867. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 227.15, 229.286, 274.42. 1980. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 445. 1880 ("Ruppell"). - Conert, H.J., Senckenbergiana, Biol. 48(c): 16. 1967 (Red sea algae FR as well as his Abyssinian, Arabian and Sinai coll.). - Embacher, F., Lexikon Reisen 254-255. 1882. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 471. 1884. - Knoblauch, A., Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. Frankfurt 48: 54-57. 1919 (brief biogr., coll. FR). - Kobelt, W., Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. 1895: 3-18 (commemoration). - Mertens, R., Eduard Rüppell, Leben und Werke eines Forschungsreisenden, Frankfurt a.M., Verlag Waldemar Kramer, iv, 388 p., *44 pl*. 1949 (main biogr., bibl., portr.); Natur und Volk 77: 46-50. 1947 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 351. 1916 (also 111. Vögelbücher 799-801). - Poggendorff J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 715. 1863, 3: 1153. 1898, 7a, Suppl.: 566. 1971 (further biogr. refs., Rüppel, not Rüppell). - Schmidt, H., Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. 1885: 95-160. (Éloge, portr.). - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 188-189, 203. 1802 ("Ruppel"). - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 1899 (see index); Hist. geol. palaeontol. 405. 1901. #### Composite works For publications on Rüppell's botanical collections see J.B.G.W. Fresenius, TL-2/1857-1858, *Beitr. Fl. Aegypt.*; J.G. Agardh, Museum Senckenbergianum 2: 169-174. 1837 (Red sea algae), and C.H. Schultz Bip., Flora 25: 417-431, 433-442. 1842 and Mus. Senckenb. 3: 45-60. 1845 (Compositae). Rüppell's own account of his travels (without botany) is his *Reisen in Nubien, Kordofan* und dem peträischen Arabien vorzüglich in geographisch-statistischer Hinsicht, Frankfurt am Main (bei Friedrich Wilmans) 1829. Oct., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-388, \[1-2, err., colo.\], *pl. 1-8*, 4 maps. *Copy*: Teyler. #### Eponymy *Rueppelia* A. Richard (1847).