| Intro | Baltic German pharmacist, botanist and entomologist (1833–1873) |
| A.K.A. | Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert, Bienert, Bien. |
| Was |
Scientist Botanist |
| From | Germany |
| Type | Science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1833, Kandava |
| Death |
1873, Riga (aged 40 years) |
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (3 May 1833 – 5 April 1873) was a Baltic German botanist who lived and worked mainly in Imperial Russia.
Life and work
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was born in Kandava, present-day Latvia, and studied in Jelgava to become an apothecary. In 1858 he moved to Tartu in present-day Estonia and worked there as an assistant to the head of the Botanical Garden there. In 1858-59 he participated in the Russian Geographical Society’s scientific expedition to Khorasan. He then stayed in Tartu until 1872, when he moved to Riga and took up a position at Riga Technical University. The genus Bienertia is named in honour of him by Alexander Bunge.
Selected writings
- Baltische Flora, enthaltend die in Esth-, Liv- u. Kurland wildwachsenden Samenpflanzen u. höheren Sporenpflanzen (1872)