Rudolph Herman Christiaan Carel Scheffer (born 12 September 1844 in

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- died 1880 in Singaraja,

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, Dutch East Indies (now

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) was a

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botanist and director of Buitenzorg Botanical Garden.

Biography

Schefferd received his education at the

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on medicine and mathematics and physics, where he graduated in 1864. His professor Miquel suggested Scheffer for the post of director of the botanical garden at Buitenzorg. In the National Herbarium in Leiden, he immersed himself in the specification of plant families. On March 20, Scheffer complete his doctor degree in mathematics and physics on the dissertation the ''Myrsinaceis Archipelagi Indici''. That same year he received a scholarship from the Dutch government to

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in London and visit to Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Following his graduation in 1868, travelled to

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in the Dutch East Indies and took the directorship of s Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg'' (today: Bogor Botanical Garden). In 1876 he founded the "economic garden" in Tjikeumeuh, some distance away from Buitenzorg. where he experimented and cultivated various culture crops on a large scale. On that same year he published "''Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg''".BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications At the instruction of Dutch administration he founded the school of agriculture at Buitenzorg ''(landbouwschool te Buitenzorg)'' for native population and also finished the layout of the "mountain garden" at Tjibodas, which was started by

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. He is commemorated with the botanical genera ''Schefferella''

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(synonym ''

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''; family

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) and ''Schefferomitra''

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(family

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). As a taxonomist, he circumscribed the genera '' Gronophyllum'', '' Heterospathe'', '' Maniltoa'' and '' Rhopaloblaste''. He died in 1880, while he was serving as director of Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens.

Published works

* "Commentatio de myrsinaceis archipelagi Indici", 1867. * "De myrsinaceis archipelagi Indici", 1867. * "Observationes phytographicae", 1869-72. * "Het Geslacht Diplanthera Banks et Sol.", 1870.WorldCat Search
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheffer, Rudolph Herman Christiaan Carel 1844 births 1880 deaths 19th-century Dutch botanists Utrecht University alumni People from Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude