Background
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was born in Kandava, present-day Latvia, and studied in Jelgava to become an apothecary.
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Theophil Bienert
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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 1858-1859 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.
