Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Karl Theodor Rümpler (1817, Alterstedt – 23 May 1891, Erfurt) was a German botanist and horticulturist.He developed a passion for botany in his youth, and studied natural sciences at the gymnasium in Mühlhausen, where one of his classmates was Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers. He later took classes in botany, zoology and foreign languages at the University of Berlin. Beginning in 1852 he was associated with the Gärtner-Lehr-Anstalt zu Erfurt (Gardener-teaching institution in Erfurt) as an instructor and inspector.In 1860 he became secretary of the Erfurter Gartenbauvereins (Erfurt Horticultural Association) as well as secretary of the county agricultural association. From 1873 to 1882 he was director of the newly established agricultural school in Erfurt.He is remembered for his investigations of the family Cactaceae, and was the taxonomic authority of numerous cactus species. In 1886 he published a new edition of Karl Friedrich Förster's 1846 "Handbuch der Cacteenkunde in ihrem ganzen Umfange".. }
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- Karl_Theodor_Rümpler abstract "Karl Theodor Rümpler (1817, Alterstedt – 23 May 1891, Erfurt) was a German botanist and horticulturist.He developed a passion for botany in his youth, and studied natural sciences at the gymnasium in Mühlhausen, where one of his classmates was Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers. He later took classes in botany, zoology and foreign languages at the University of Berlin. Beginning in 1852 he was associated with the Gärtner-Lehr-Anstalt zu Erfurt (Gardener-teaching institution in Erfurt) as an instructor and inspector.In 1860 he became secretary of the Erfurter Gartenbauvereins (Erfurt Horticultural Association) as well as secretary of the county agricultural association. From 1873 to 1882 he was director of the newly established agricultural school in Erfurt.He is remembered for his investigations of the family Cactaceae, and was the taxonomic authority of numerous cactus species. In 1886 he published a new edition of Karl Friedrich Förster's 1846 "Handbuch der Cacteenkunde in ihrem ganzen Umfange".".