Werner Rauh was an internationally renowned German botanist and author.

Biography

Born in the town of Niemegk

Niemegk

Niemegk is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 10 km southeast of Belzig, and 23 km north of Wittenberg. It is located in the High Fläming Nature Park....

 in Brandenburg

Brandenburg

Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...

, Rauh studied at the University of Halle under the famous morphologist Wilhelm Troll and received his doctorate in 1937 before coming to the University of Heidelberg two years later. He discovered or described some 1200 genera, species and varieties of plants from Africa, the Americas and Asia. His fields of specialization were the Bromeliads and succulent plants. He was a Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Institute of Plant Systematics and Plant Geography as well as Director of the Heidelberger Botanical Gardens and authored over 300 scholarly books and articles. His work on the succulent and xerophytic flora of Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

is presented in his two-volume work Succulent and Xerophytic Plants of Madagascar.

Selected publications

• Kakteen an ihren Standorten, 1979, ISBN 3-4895-1924-8
• Die 100 schönsten Kakteen, Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, 1980, ISBN 3-581-66370-8
• Die großartige Welt der Sukkulenten, 1979
• Schöne Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten, 1967
• Bromelien - Tillandsien und andere kulturwürdige Bromelien, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8001-6371-3
• Succulent and Xerophytic Plants of Madagascar, Vol. 1 + 2, Strawberry Press, 1995 + 1998, ISBN 0-912647-14-0

Expeditions

• 1950: Morocco
• 1954: Peru, Ecuador
• 1956: Peru
• 1959/1960: Madagascar, Tasmania, Kenya
• 1961: Madagascar, South Africa
• 1963: Madagascar, Comoros
• 1964: South Africa
• 1966: Mexico
• 1967: Peru
• 1968: South Africa
• 1969: Madagascar, Comoros
• 1970: Peru, Mexico
• 1971: USA
• 1973: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands Peru, Brazil
• 1974: Mexico
• 1975: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama
• 1976: Peru, Bolivia, Chile
• 1977: USA Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• 1978: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines
• 1979: Namibia, South Africa
• 1980: Mexico, Peru, Ecuador
• 1981: Brazil
• 1982: USA, Panama, Dominican Republic
• 1983: Ecuador, Peru, Argentina
• 1984: Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Panama
• 1985: USA, Mexico, Peru
• 1986: Brazil
• 1994: Madagascar

External links

• http://fcbs.org/articles/WernerRauh.htm