Karl Theodor Rümpler

Karl Theodor Rümpler (* 1817 in Alterstedt, † May 23, 1891 in Erfurt, Germany ) was a German horticulture teacher and writer, who also worked as a botanist, though he had no relevant training. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Rümpler ".

Life

Rümpler was a son of Carl Christoph Rümpler, cantor and schoolmaster to Alterstedt, who also worked as a regional writer, and his wife, the tailor 's daughter Juliane Sophie Hildebrand Thamsbrück.

He attended the High School of Mühlhausen ( Thuringia), where Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers was his classmate. Even as a 13 -year-old, he discovered his love of plants, especially perennials, ornamental shrubs and cacti, undertook botanical excursions, put on a herbarium and practiced in the nature print. The envisaged by his parents to study theology he did not join in and was like his father a teacher. He had his first teaching jobs near Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains and the Thuringian Forest. In his spare time he botanized in these areas. He managed meanwhile to visit two semesters at the University of Berlin lectures and to learn the English and French language.

In Berlin, he sought contact to the Botanical Gardens and was eventually hired in 1852 at the Erfurt gardeners educational institution as a teacher of the auxiliary sciences of horticulture. The institution was dissolved after seven years of existence again. Rümpler worked for two years at the market gardener Döring in Hochheim near Erfurt before 1860 Secretary of Erfurt Horticultural Association and the county agricultural society was. In 1873 he was awarded the directorship of the newly established agricultural school in Erfurt.

Scripture Generic works

Publications in the 19th century

In 1846 he edited the Handbook of Cacteenkunde of Carl Friedrich Förster. By his own account he wrote 1848/49 also works pedagogical Art 1856-58 he edited the published by the Erfurt market gardener Alfred pot Generalanzeiger for artistic and commercial nursery. He then took over the Erfurt Generalanzeiger for art and market garden, which went down in 1861 again. In 1863, Rümpler a German newspaper garden, which existed until 1871.

His first books were called The Garden amateur gardening (1856 ) and The Rose Gardener ( 1857), which appeared under the name of pot and applause found. 1865 appeared Erfurt Agriculture and Horticulture, 1870 Fruit production in the country under his own name. 1873/74 commissioned him Verlag Paul Parey of the translation of Vilmorin Blumengärtnerei that made him known in the German -speaking world.

This was followed Illustrirtes wood book by Julius Hartwig ( revised edition 1875), The Garden Flowers ( 1876), The Illustrirte vegetable and fruit gardening (1879 ) and Schmidlin Garden Book ( revised edition 1883).

His main work is the Illustrirte Horticultural Encyclopedia (1882).

Leading the way for the use of perennials in the 20th century was his book The Perennial (1887 ). Most Recent The Room Nursery ( 1884) and The succulents (posthumous, 1892).

Publications in the 20th century

Several of his books were still up in the 1920s reissued.

The Zentralantiquariat the GDR published in 1987 in Leipzig under the title Handbook of Kakteenkunde a reprint edition of the Handbook of Cacteenkunde in its whole extent, for a copy of 1886, supplemented by a foreword by Gottfried Gutte. Unusually for that time was that the laid in the GDR book was already equipped with an ISBN ( ISBN 3-7463-0066-5 it is ), what has been rare for books in the GDR. As both authors Carl Friedrich Förster and Theodor Rümpler standing on the tracks ( the German National Library online makes the contents of the reprint edition pdf available ).

Swell

• Autobiography, in: Rümpler 1882, pp. 1027f.
• Obituary in: Moller German gardener newspaper. 1891, pp. 187f.
• Obituary in a garden flora. 1891, p 312
• Obituary in: General German gardener newspaper. 1891, p 203