> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1008](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190479) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8760-1) LSID 8760-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6215830) QID Q6215830 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ruthe, Johannes Friedrich (1788-1859), German (Hildesheim, Nieder-Sachsen) botanist and zoologist; studied medicine at the University of Berlin 1811; teacher at the Plamann College 1813, high school teacher at Frankfurt a. Oder 1823, at the Kölnische Gymnasium Berlin 1825, at the Berliner Städtische Gewerbeschule 1829-1842; in retirement at Berlin 1842-1859; student of the flora of the Mark Brandenburg, in his later years of the entomology of that region; natural sciences teacher of Theodor Fontane. **Abbreviated name**: *Ruthe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ruthe*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.). – Issued a *Flora der Mittelmark in getrockneten Exemplaren*, 1 cent. (issued in 10 decades) 1820-1822 (see Anon., Flora 3: 749-750. 1820, 4: 175-176. 1821 (dec. 1-4) and 5: 655-656. 1822 (dec. 10). – Ruthe left a rich herbarium which was put up for sale (Ascherson 1860); this was incorporated in his son Rudolf's herbarium (at [[Collection B|B]], see below), now almost entirely destroyed (Mar 1943). – Letters to D.F.L. von Schlechtendal at [[Collection HAL|HAL]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 749; Barnhart 3: 195; BM 4: 1773; CSP 5: 346-347; GR p. 128 (b. 16 Apr 1788, d. 24 Aug 1859); Herder p. 188; Hortus 3: 1203; Kew 4: 554; LS 29270; PR 7933, ed. 1: 8888; Rehder 1: 377; SBC p. 130; Tucker 1: 615. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 2: 144. 1844 (retirement). - Ascherson, P., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 2: 211-216. 1860 (obit.; rich herbarium still for sale); Fl. Provinz Brandenburg 1: 12. 1864. - Fontane, Th., Sämtl. Werke, ed. Hauser, 4: 282 (natural sciences teacher of Fontane; inf. G. Wagenitz). - Kraatz, G., Berliner entom. Z. 4: 101-102. 1860 (obit., portr., b. 16 Apr 1788, d. 24 Aug 1859). - Ruthe, J.F., Leben, Leiden und Widerwärtigkeiten eines Niedersachsen, Berlin 1841. (autobiogr.). - Schmid, G., Chamisso als Naturforscher 18, 172. 1942. #### Eponymy *Ruthea* Opatowski (1836); *Ruthea* Bolle (1862). *Note*: *Ruthiella* C.G.G. J. van Steenis (1965) was dedicated to Miss Ruth van Crevel, illustrator of Flora Malesiana. ### Publications ##### n.9839. Flora der Mark Brandenburg **Title** *Flora der Mark Brandenburg* und der Niederlausitz... Erste Abtheilung: Phanerogamen... Berlin (verlegt bei Heinr. Adolph Wilhelm Logier) 1827. Oct. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Mark Brandenburg*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1827 (p. x: 16 Mar 1827; Linnaea Aug-Oct 1827), p. \[ii\]-xxiv, \[1\]-491, \[492-493\], \[494 adv.\]. *Copies*: G, HH, NY. – Other t.p.: *Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Mark Brandenburg* und der Niederlausitz... Pflanzen". No further volumes issued. *Ed. 2*: 27 Apr-3 Mai 1834 (p. x: Apr 1834; Hinrichs; Flora 21 Jun 1834), p. \[ii\]-xxvi, \[1\]-687, \[688-692\], *pl. 1-2* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: G, HH, NY, PH. *Ref*.: \[Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von\], Linnaea 2(3): 482-483. Aug-Oct. 1827 (rev. ed. 1), 9 (Litt.): 25-26. 1834 (rev.ed. 2).