Carl Ludwig Blume
Sign in to saveAlso known as Blume, C.L. Blume, Karl Ludwig von Blume, Charles Ludwig Blume, Charles Ludwig de Blume, Karl Ludwig Blume, Karel Lodewijk Blume, Carl Ludwig von Blume
German-Dutch botanist (1796-1862)
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Key facts
- Born
- 9 June 1796, Braunschweig , Germany
- Died
- 3 February 1862 (1862-02-03) (aged 65), Leiden , Netherlands
- Other names
- Karl Ludwig von Blume, Karel Lodewijk Blume
- Awards
- Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Fields
- Botany , Entomology
- Institutions
- Bogor Botanical Gardens , Java; Rijksherbarium, Leiden
- Author abbrev botany
- Blume
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Brunswick
- Place of death
- Leiden
- Educated at
- Leiden University
- Employer
- Leiden University
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- Carl Ludwig Blume.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1796-01-01
- date of death
- 1862-01-01
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- Carl Ludwig Blume
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- name in native language
- Carl Ludwig Blume
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- Bishop Museum
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Encyclopedic overview
Title page of Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'archipel Indien et du Japon Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796 – 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist who spent most of his professional life in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As deputy director of agriculture at the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Java (1823–1826) and later director of the Rijksherbarium in Leiden, he conducted extensive studies of Southeast Asian flora, publishing numerous influential works including Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (1825–1827) and Rumphia (1835–1849). Together with Philipp Franz von Siebold, Blume co-founded the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Horticulture in the Netherlands in 1842, helping to revitalise the country's reputation as a centre for botanical study and exotic plant cultivation. His scientific contributions were recognised with his election as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1855, and his legacy is commemorated in the botanical journal Blumea, which bears his name.
Biography
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