http://www.orchids-flowers.com The Beauty of Orchids and Flowers Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-elias-teijsmann-dutch-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-elias-teijsmann-dutch-botanist/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:25:40 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2797 Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808 — 1882) was a Dutch botanist and plant collector. In 1830 he arrived in Java and became the gardener of the Governor General van den Bosch. From 1831 – 1869 he was curator at Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens (Bogor, Java, Indonesia). Johannes Elias Teijsmann took part in many botanical expeditions in the [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-elias-teijsmann-dutch-botanist/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/nathaniel-wallich-danish-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/nathaniel-wallich-danish-botanist/#comments Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:17:20 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2667 Nathaniel Wallich (1786 – 1854) was a Danish botanist and surgeon. Nathaniel Wallich obtained the diploma of the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Copenhagen in 1807 and was also stuying botany. In the same year he sailed to India and became a surgeon in the Danish settlement at Serampore (former Frederiksnagore) in Bengal near Calcutta. [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/nathaniel-wallich-danish-botanist/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/curt-polycarp-joachim-sprengel-german-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/curt-polycarp-joachim-sprengel-german-botanist/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:54:00 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2616 Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1750-1816), born at Boldekow in Pomerani was a German botanist and physician. In 1780, at the age of 20 years, he published his first small work, called Botanik für Frauenzimmer (botany for women). In 1784 he started to study theology and medicine at the university of Halle. Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/curt-polycarp-joachim-sprengel-german-botanist/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/friedrich-wilhelm-ludwig-kraenzlin-german-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/friedrich-wilhelm-ludwig-kraenzlin-german-botanist/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:33:20 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2576 Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin (1847-1934) was a German botanist, who appeared after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. He revised several orchid genera and described many new orchids, mostly from South Africa and Central- and South America. His book Orchidacearum Genera et Species has never been finished. Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin has been associated with the Natural [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/friedrich-wilhelm-ludwig-kraenzlin-german-botanist/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/william-roxburgh-scottish-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/william-roxburgh-scottish-botanist/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:36:21 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2260 William Roxburgh (1751 – 1815) was a Scottish botanist and surgeon. He studied medicine and botany in Edinburgh and had been a surgeon’s mate on an East India Company ship. At the age of just 21 years he already undertook 2 voyages to India. He worked at the Madras Medical Service as an assistant surgeon [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/william-roxburgh-scottish-botanist/feed/ 2 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/otto-warburg-german-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/otto-warburg-german-botanist/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:35:22 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2225 Otto Warburg (1859 – 1938), not to be confused with his distant cousin Otto Heinrich Warburg, a Nobel Prize Laureate, was a German botanist and agriculture expert. Otto Warburg was also Zionist and from 1911 – 1921 he was president of the Zionist Organisation. He studied natural sciences (botany, chemistry and zoology) in Bonn, Berlin [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/otto-warburg-german-botanist/feed/ 1 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/charles-gaudichaud-beaupre-french-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/charles-gaudichaud-beaupre-french-botanist/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:26:33 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2152 The French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789 – 1854) was born at 04.09.1789 in the capital of the southwestern French department Charente, Angoulême. He studied pharmacology, chemistry and herbology at Cognac and Angoulême. From 1817 to 1820 he was the serving botanist on a circumglobal expedition. In the year 1831 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré sailed to South America [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/charles-gaudichaud-beaupre-french-botanist/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/olof-peter-swartz-swedish-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/olof-peter-swartz-swedish-botanist/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:06:08 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=1881 Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He studied at the University of Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus the Younger, son of the famous Carolus Linnaeus, where he got his doctorate in 1781. In 1780 started to travel and collected about 6000 specimens. In the year 1786 he went to London, where he [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/olof-peter-swartz-swedish-botanist/feed/ 3 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/queen-sirikit-of-thailand/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/queen-sirikit-of-thailand/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:39:51 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=1743 Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand was born at 12.08.1932 in Bangkok , Thailand. While she studied at a music academy in Paris, Queen Sirikit met His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/queen-sirikit-of-thailand/feed/ 1 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-jacobus-smith-dutch-botanist/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-jacobus-smith-dutch-botanist/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:29:38 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=1639 Johannes Jacobus Smith (1867-1947) was a Dutch Botanist. In the year 1891 Johannes Jacobus Smith became assistant curator at the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia...]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/johannes-jacobus-smith-dutch-botanist/feed/ 7