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Index of Botanists

NameBruns, Ferdinand Carl August
Date of birth1869
Date of death1932
RemarksExample of Name Published: Sida lomana Bruns (1929). "Teacher of arts in Hamburg from 1903, one of the founders of the Botanical Verein in Hamburg in 1891. Teaching at the German school in Teheran, Iran from 1908 to 1910. Mostly collector of phanerogams. Worked on the Peruvian collections of Buchtien and Günther (BRUNS 1931). WAGENITZ (1960: 359) points out, that the original collection of F. Bruns from northern Iran ("Persia") is located in the Herbarium Hamburgense. Orbituary by ERICHSEN (1933). Collected also some lichens which he gave to C.F.E. Erichsen." (vide http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/syst/herbar2.htm) [author note: Herbarium and types: HBG]
ASA Botanist ID166025 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/eb002a58-f905-441e-8abd-e7f28f6b72db
Variant nameBruns, Ferdinand
Variant nameFerdinand Carl August Bruns
Author nameBruns
B & P Author Abbrev.Bruns
Standard/Label NameF. C. A. Bruns
Full NameBruns, Ferdinand Carl August
Geography AuthorGermany
Geography CollectorIran
Specialty AuthorSpermatophytes
Specialty CollectorLichens
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as AuthorMitt. Bot. Inst. Hamburg 8: 1-85. 1929
Citation as AuthorTaxon. Lit., ed. 2 (TL2)/S
Citation as AuthorEmail message on the dates and Hamburg Herb. reference from S. Dressler (FR)
Member of teams/groups
Collector Teams:J. F. N. Bornmüller & F. C. A. Bruns 

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