Gertrud Bartusch

Costus villosissimus
Rhynchanthus johnianus

Gertrud Bartusch aka Gertrud Fuchs-Henel, wife of Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach, was a German botanical illustrator known for her plates in 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae Occidentalis' (1904) by F.L.E.Diels & E.Pritzel, 'Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Südsee', t. 3* (1901) by Schumann, K.M., and Lauterbach, K., and Rudolf Marloth's 'Flora of South Africa'.[1][2] She worked at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.[3]

She was the daughter of Rudolf Fuchs-Henel, a merchant, and Romanian Consul-General in Breslau.[4][5] and married Carl Lauterbach (1864-1937), German explorer and botanist, in Breslau in 1892.[6]

The genus Gertrudia in the family Flacourtiaceae was named after her.[7]

References

  1. Hewson, Helen. "Bartusch, G." Anbg.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  2. "Licuala beccariana (Schumann & Lauterb.) Furtado [as Dammera ramosa Schumann & Lauterb.]". Plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  3. Schuster, Julius (1911). Monographie der fossilen Flora der Pithecanthropus-Schichten. Munich: Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. p. 3. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7643.
  4. "Preußisches Archiv , 1895". Digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  5. "Alocasia lauterbachiana". Planmtarum.livejournal.com. 1 October 2015.
  6. Biographie, Deutsche. "Lauterbach, Carl - Deutsche Biographie". Deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  7. Frahm, Jan-Peter; Eggers, Jens (7 June 2017). "Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen". Google Books. Retrieved 2017-06-07.

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