Background
He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, and grew up in Prague, where he studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836.
Botanist lichenologist physician
He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, and grew up in Prague, where he studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836.
Charles University in Prague.
After a short stint in medical practice in Prague, he was appointed curator of the herbarium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint St. Petersburg in 1839, then assistant director of the Saint St. Petersburg Botanical Garden between 1851 and 1855, and professor of botany in 1855 at the University of Saint St. Petersburg. He died in Saint St. Petersburg in 1870. He described many new plants collected in the Russian Far East, including Alaska, then under Russian rule.
Examples include Adiantum aleuticum, Lonicera maackii, and Phellodendron amurense.
The genus Ruprechtia is named after him.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.