Person
Rupp, Herman Montague Rucker (1872 - 1956)
- Born
- 27 December 1872
Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 2 September 1956
Mosman, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Minister of religion
Summary
Herman Rupp was an Anglican clergyman who was considered one of three experts on Australia's orchids in the first half of the twentieth century. For most of his 40 years as a priest he was assigned to parishes in New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, where he took every opportunity to study the local flora and compile censuses of them. From the mid-1920s Rupp concentrated on orchids, an interest since childhood. He published over 200 papers and two authoritative books, and described four new genera and 71 new species. Such was the respect in which he was held that in retirement, he was invited to be Honorary Curator of Orchids at the National Herbarium of New South Wales. Rupp donated large collections of specimens to this Herbarium in 1946 and to the University of Melbourne School of Botany in 1926.
Details
Chronology
- 1897
- Education - BA, University of Melbourne
- 1899
- Career position - Ordained Deacon, Anglican Church
- 1899 - 1914
- Career position - Assigned to various parishes in Victoria and New South Wales
- 1901
- Career position - Ordained priest, Anglican Church
- 1914 - 1920
- Career position - Assistant Secretary (later Secretary), Australian Board of Missions
- 1921 - 1939
- Career position - Assigned to various parishes in Tasmania and New South Wales
- 1924 -
- Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Society of New South Wales
- 1927 -
- Career position - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1934 - 1953
- Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1939
- Life event - Retired
- 1939 - 1956
- Career position - Honorary Curator of Orchids, National Herbarium of New South Wales
- 1949
- Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1953 - 1956
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1954
- Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
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Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- Harman Montague Rucker Rupp - Records, 1892 - 1956; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
- Harman Montague Rucker Rupp - Records, 1885 - 1956; Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Details
University of Melbourne, Botany School
- Harman Montague Rucker Rupp - Records, 1885 - 1956; University of Melbourne, Botany School. Details
Published resources
Books
- Gilbert, Lionel, The Orchid Man: the Life, Work and Memoirs of the Rev. H.M.R. Rupp (1872-1956) (Kenthurst (N.S.W.): Kangaroo Press, 1992), 248 pp. Details
- Rupp, H. M. R., The orchids of New South Wales (Sydney: National Herbarium of New South Wales, 1943), 152 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Gilbert, L. A., 'Rupp, Herman Montague Rucker (1872-1956), Clergyman and Botanist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Geoffrey Serle, ed., vol. 11 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 480-481. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110489b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Willis, J. H., 'The passing of a great orchidologist (Rev. H. M. R. Rupp, 1872 - 1956)', The Victorian naturalist, 73 (5) (1956), 105-10. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3281684. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/11521179. Details
- 'Rupp, H M R (1872-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-574066. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
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