Carl Ludwig Blume

Karl Ludwig Ritter von Blume (9 June 1796 - 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist.

He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but spent most of his professional life working in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium (state herbarium) at Leiden. His name is sometimes given in the Dutch language form Karel Lodewijk Blume, but the original Germanic spelling is the one most widely used in botanical texts, but even then there is confusion as he is sometimes referred to as K.L. (from Karl) and sometimes as C.L. (from Carl or even Charles) Blume.

He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands. From 1823 to 1826 Blume was deputy director of agriculture at the botanic garden in Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java.

The botanical journal "Blumea" is named after him.

Notes

Note regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, best translated as "Knight", in the British sense of an hereditary knighthood, not a first or middle name.

Publications

* Carl Ludwig Blume: "Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië …". 1825-1827 [http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11963621 on Botanicus]
* Carl Ludwig Blume: "Enumeratio plantarum Javae et insularum adjacentium." 1827-1828.
* Carl Ludwig Blume & J. B. Fischer: "Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium …". 1828-1851.
* Carl Ludwig Blume: "Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae orientalis …". 1836-1849 (4 volumes with 170 illustrations)
* Carl Ludwig Blume: "Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum …". 1849-1857 [http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11902358 on Botanicus]

References

External links

* [http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/images/adb002/@ebt-link?target=idmatch(entityref,adb0020748) Detailed biography]
* [http://www.orchids.co.in/orchidologists/karl-ludwig-blume.shtm Karl Ludwig Blume] Karl Ludwig Blume's work on orchids