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Karl Ludwig Ritter von Blume (29 June 1789 - 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1789 ( MDCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life

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. Braunschweig, known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245810 people (as of 31 December 2007 located in Lower Saxony, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In Botany, a Herbarium is a collection of preserved Plant specimens "Leyden" redirects here For other uses see Leyden (disambiguation. 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. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. 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. In Botany, flora ( Plural: floras or florae has two meanings The first meaning flora of an area or of time period, refers to all Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. This article is about a type of political territory For other uses see Colony (disambiguation. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands From 1823 to 1826 Blume was deputy director of agriculture at the botanic garden in Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display The Bogor Botanical Gardens are located 60 km south of the capital of Jakarta in Bogor, Indonesia. Bogor is a city in West Java with a population of approximately 800000 people in the CBD area and 2000000 in suburban area bringing a total of 3 million population

The botanical journal Blumea is named after him. For a broader class of publications which include scientific journals see Academic journal. Blumea - Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography is a peer-reviewed botanical journal published by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands

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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. Ritter is the second-lowest-ranking Title of Nobility in German-speaking areas just above an Edler, considered roughly equal to the title

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References

  1. ^ Brummitt, R. K. ; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive Gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and ISBN 1-84246-085-4.  

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