- Paul Sintenis
Paul Ernst Emil Sintenis (4. 4. 1887
Seidenberg ,Oberlausitz ,Prussia - ?. ?. 1907, ?) was a Germanbotanist ,pharmacist andplant collector .He studied at the gymnasium inGörlitz , became a pharmacist’s apprentice in 1863 and worked as such in several German cities.His first collecting trip, in the years 1872-1876, was as helper to his brother Max, with whom he collected birds, mammals and plants in the
Dobruja .After further pharmaceutical studies in Breslau (now
Wrocław ) and another short stint as pharmacist, he spent the rest of his professional life as plant collector.Between the years 1800 – 1883 he collected on
Rhodes ,Cyprus ,Northern Italy , andIstria .Sintenis arrived in
Puerto Rico in October 1884 and, supported by L.Krug , remained there until June 1887.He subsequently collected in
Syria ,Irak ,Iran , theKurdistan ,Armenia and the Greek islands. The first set of his collections was mostly destroyed atDahlem (Berlin) during the Second World War, but duplicates survived in all major herbaria. primarilyKew , theBritish Museum ,Harvard ,New York Botanical Garden ,Lund and theNational Museum of Natural History in Washington.Bibliography
(from WorldCat)
* Crèpin, François. "Les roses récoltées par m. Paul Sintenis dans l'Armenie turque en 1889". S.l., 1890.
* Bresadola, G. ; P Hennings; P Magnus; . Sintenis, P.E.E. "Die vom Herrn P. Sintenis auf der Insel Portorico 1884-1887 gesammelten Pilze." W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1893.
*Freyn, J. "Plantæ novæ orientales. VI, Verzeichnis der von P. Sintenis in Ost-Masenderan gesammelten Pflanzen". Impr. Romet, Genève, 1902.ources
* Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:127,1902.
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