> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1020](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190491) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8773-1) LSID 8773-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2547407) QID Q2547407 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rytz, August Rudolf Walther (Rytz-Miller) (1882-1966), Swiss botanist; Dr. phil. Bern 1907; habil. Bern 1911; curator of botanical collections Bot. Inst. Bern, 1915-1920; extraordinary professor of botany Univ. Bern 1920-1952; moving force in setting up the alpine garden Schynige Platte, nr. Interlaken; vice-director University Botanical Garden Bern 1952-1966; co-founder of the Bernische Botanische Gesellschaft (1918); outstanding worker on the flora of the Bernese Alps and historian of botany. **Abbreviated name**: *Rytz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rytz*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BERN|BERN]] (rd 1920). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 196 (b. 13 Jan 1882); BFM no. 957, 975; BJI 2: 151; BL 2: 565, 569, 570, 711; Hirsch p. 256; IH 2: (files); Kew 4: 556; LS 23274, 38662; MW suppl. p. 296; NI 1709, 1708n; PFC 3(2): xvii; Plesch p. 393; TL-2/1793. #### Biofile - Anon., Hedwigia 57(1): (76). 1915 (curator Bern). - Rytz, W., Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern 5: 26. 1923 (herb.); Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 44(1): 1-222. 1933 (Das Herbarium Felix Platters. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Botanik der xvi. Jahrhunderts). - Welten, M., Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern 24: 103-113. 1967 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 30, 132, 275. 1936, 3: 240. 1937. #### Note Rytz published a *Schweizerische Schulflora*, ed. 1 (1923), ed. 4 (1954). ### Publications ##### n.9874. Geschichte der Flora des bernischen Hügellandes **Title** *Geschichte der Flora des bernischen Hügellandes* zwischen Alpen und Jura... Bern (Buchdruckerei K.J. Wyss) 1912. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gesch. Fl. bern. Hügell.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1912 (t.p. preprint; Nat. Nov. Dec(2)) 1912), p. \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-169, chart. *Copy*: G. – Preprinted from Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern 1912: 53-221. 1913. *Ref*.: Baumann, E., Bot. Centralbl. 122: 570-572. 1913 (rev.). ##### n.9875. Pflanzenaquarelle des Hans Weidilz **Title** *Pflanzenaquarelle des Hans Weidilz* aus dem Jahre 1529 (Die Originale zu den Holzschnitten im Brunfels'schen Kräuterbuch... Bern (Verlag Paul Haupt,...) 1936. **Abbreviated title**: *Pfl.-Aquar. Weiditz*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1936 (p. 4: Oct 1934), p. \[1\]-44, *pl. 1-15* (col.). *Copy*: U. – Contains reproductions of some of the originals for the woodcuts in Otto Brunfels, *Herb. vivae eicon.* 1530, see TL-2/852. These originals were included in the herbarium of Félix Platter at BERN. – For further details, see Rytz, *Das Herbarium Felix Platters* (Rytz 1933).