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Kuntze, Carl Ernest Otto

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1843, Leipsic, Germany. Died: 1907, San Remo, Italy.

career:

Merchant-botanist who made a voyage round the world (see below), during which the Malayan region was visited. Later he travelled in Turkestan, S. America (1891-92), and in Africa (1894).¹ In 1905 he settled at San Remo.

Several plants were named after him.

Collecting localities:

Voyage round the world, 1874-76.² Visiting West India, America, China, Annam, Cochin-China; in 1875 in the Malaysian region: Singapore; Java (May 2-Sept. 27), viz in W. Java: Batavia; Buitenzorg (May 12-13), visiting Kuripan etc.; departing for Sindanglaja (24), Tjibodas, G. Gedeh-Pangrango (30) and Telaga Warna; Tjiandjur (June 5); Wijnkoopsbaai, Palabuan Ratu, etc. (10-16); Sukabumi (17-21); S. Priangan (_ prob. S of Sukabumi) (June 22-July 1); Sukabumi (2); via Tjiandjur to Bandung, visiting G. Tangkuban Prahu (10), Pengalengan and Tjinjiruan (12); Cheribon (17-19); Centr. Java: Pekalongan, Semarang; Demak (28), Purwodadi, Kuwu, Demak, Semarang (31); Magelang (Aug. 6), Borobudur, G. Sumbing (13), Wonosobo, Diëng Plateau (Aug. 16-19, ascending G. Prahu on the 18th); Djokja, Solo; E. Java: Madiun (26), Pulong, Pudak; Dorowati on G. Wilis (28), Ponorogo; Surabaya (Sept. 2-9); Probolinggo, G. Tengger (Bromo, 14); Malang (16); Surabaya (17-19); by sea to Batavia; Malay Peninsula: Singapore (Oct. 1); Johore (2-8); Singapore (9); Penang (12); home voyage via Calcutta, Brit. India (Himalaya), Aden and Egypt; back at Leipsic (Febr. 1876).

collections:

His collection 1874-76 amounts to c. 7700 plants in 30.000 specimens,³at present in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. [NY].⁴ Duplicates at Munich [M]; Herb. Kew [K]: 1140 nos (pres. 1887-94); Herb. Berl. [B]: 330 nos voyage 1874-76 and 35 nos in the Show Mus.; Herb. Vienna [W] (with Herb. Reichenbach): orchids from the East Indies; Herb. Leiden [L]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 13 Java nos; Herb. Edinb. [E]: 1 bundle of plants.

literature:

(1) cf. data in Journ. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1908, p. 19-21.
(2) O. Kuntze: ‘Um die Erde. Reiseberichte eines Naturforschers’ (Leipzig 1881, 2nd ed. 1888). Some of the mentioned dates are wrong.
(3) O. Kuntze: ‘Revisio generum plantarum omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum’ (Leipzig, London, 1891-98, 2 vols).
C.A. Backer: ‘A revision of Kuntze’s types of new Javan species’ (Brittonia 3, 1938, p. 75-90).
(4) N.L. Britton: ‘The herbarium of the late Dr Otto Kuntze’ (Journ. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1908, p. 19-21).

biographical data:

Curriculum vitae in O. Kuntze, Monographie der Gattung Cinchona (Thesis; in the copy of the Library at Buitenzorg this Curr. vitae was wanting); Deutsche Rundschau f Geogr. u. Statist. 11, 1889, p. 572-574, w. portr.; bibliogr. in O. Kuntze, Revisio generum plantarum etc. 1, 1891, p. clvi; Urban, Symb. Antill., 3, 1902-03, p. 70-71; Journ. Bot. 45, 1907, p. 127; Kew Bull. 1907, p. 100-101; Orch. Review 15, 1907,p.66-67; Gard. Chron. 3rd ser. 41,1907,p.105.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Kuntze, Carl Ernest Otto
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1843, Leipsic, Germany. Died: 1907, San Remo, Italy.
	career: Merchant-botanist who made a voyage round the world (see below), during which the Malayan region was visited. Later he travelled in Turkestan, S. America (1891-92), and in Africa (1894).¹ In 1905 he settled at San Remo. Several plants were named after him.
	Collecting localities: Voyage round the world, 1874-76.² Visiting West India, America, China, Annam, Cochin-China; in 1875 in the Malaysian region: Singapore; Java (May 2-Sept. 27), viz in W. Java: Batavia; Buitenzorg (May 12-13), visiting Kuripan etc.; departing for Sindanglaja (24), Tjibodas, G. Gedeh-Pangrango (30) and Telaga Warna; Tjiandjur (June 5); Wijnkoopsbaai, Palabuan Ratu, etc. (10-16); Sukabumi (17-21); S. Priangan (_ prob. S of Sukabumi) (June 22-July 1); Sukabumi (2); via Tjiandjur to Bandung, visiting G. Tangkuban Prahu (10), Pengalengan and Tjinjiruan (12); Cheribon (17-19); Centr. Java: Pekalongan, Semarang; Demak (28), Purwodadi, Kuwu, Demak, Semarang (31); Magelang (Aug. 6), Borobudur, G. Sumbing (13), Wonosobo, Diëng Plateau (Aug. 16-19, ascending G. Prahu on the 18th); Djokja, Solo; E. Java: Madiun (26), Pulong, Pudak; Dorowati on G. Wilis (28), Ponorogo; Surabaya (Sept. 2-9); Probolinggo, G. Tengger (Bromo, 14); Malang (16); Surabaya (17-19); by sea to Batavia; Malay Peninsula: Singapore (Oct. 1); Johore (2-8); Singapore (9); Penang (12); home voyage via Calcutta, Brit. India (Himalaya), Aden and Egypt; back at Leipsic (Febr. 1876).
	collections: His collection 1874-76 amounts to c. 7700 plants in 30.000 specimens,³at present in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. [NY].⁴ Duplicates at Munich [M]; Herb. Kew [K]: 1140 nos (pres. 1887-94); Herb. Berl. [B]: 330 nos voyage 1874-76 and 35 nos in the Show Mus.; Herb. Vienna [W] (with Herb. Reichenbach): orchids from the East Indies; Herb. Leiden [L]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 13 Java nos; Herb. Edinb. [E]: 1 bundle of plants.
	literature: (1) cf. data in Journ. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1908, p. 19-21. (2) O. Kuntze: ‘Um die Erde. Reiseberichte eines Naturforschers’ (Leipzig 1881, 2nd ed. 1888). Some of the mentioned dates are wrong. (3) O. Kuntze: ‘Revisio generum plantarum omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum’ (Leipzig, London, 1891-98, 2 vols). C.A. Backer: ‘A revision of Kuntze’s types of new Javan species’ (Brittonia 3, 1938, p. 75-90). (4) N.L. Britton: ‘The herbarium of the late Dr Otto Kuntze’ (Journ. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1908, p. 19-21).
	biographical data: Curriculum vitae in O. Kuntze, Monographie der Gattung Cinchona (Thesis; in the copy of the Library at Buitenzorg this Curr. vitae was wanting); Deutsche Rundschau f Geogr. u. Statist. 11, 1889, p. 572-574, w. portr.; bibliogr. in O. Kuntze, Revisio generum plantarum etc. 1, 1891, p. clvi; Urban, Symb. Antill., 3, 1902-03, p. 70-71; Journ. Bot. 45, 1907, p. 127; Kew Bull. 1907, p. 100-101; Orch. Review 15, 1907,p.66-67; Gard. Chron. 3rd ser. 41,1907,p.105.