Rupert Huter (26 September 1834, Kals – 11 February 1919, Ried bei Sterzing) was an Austrian

clergyman Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...

and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. He studied

theology Theology is the study of religious belief from a Religion, religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an Discipline (academia), academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itse ...

Brixen Brixen (; , ; or , ) is a town and communes of Italy, commune in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located about north of Bolzano. Geography Brixen is the third-largest city and oldest town in the province, with a population of nearly twenty-three t ...

, afterwards working as an assistant priest in the town of

Sankt Jakob in Defereggen Sankt Jakob in Defereggen (Southern Bavarian: ''St. Jakoub in Dejfreggin'') is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Ita ...

. From 1861 to 1881, he served as a

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are as ...

in several Austrian communities, later being named an ''expositur'' in Jaufental. From 1884 to 1918, he was a priest in Ried bei Sterzing. Herbarbogen Rupert Huter

With Pietro Porta (1832–1923) and Giorgio Rigo (1841–1922), he participated in several botanical expeditions, including trips to

Carnia Carnia ( or ''Cjargna''/''Cjargno'' in local variants, , , ) is a historical-geographic region in the northeastern Italian area of Friuli. Its 27 municipalities all belong to the province of Udine, which itself is part of the autonomous Friuli- ...

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(1873), southern Italy (1874, 1875, 1877), Spain (1879) and the

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(1885). Together with them he edited the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

series ''Ex itinere Hispanico 1879'' and ''Iter III. Italicum''.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. His

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...

of nearly 120,000 specimens was bequeathed to the "Vinzentinum" in Brixen. Of particular interest, are specimens of the genus ''

Hieracium ''Hieracium'' (), known by the common name hawkweed and classically as (from ancient Greek ἱέραξ, 'hawk'), is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and closely related to dandelion (''Taraxacum''), chicory (''Cichorium''), ...

'' contained within the herbarium. The genus ''Hutera'' (synonym ''

Coincya ''Coincya'' is a genus of flowering plant that belongs to the family Brassicaceae. Three species of the plant are endemic to the British Isles, these being '' Coincya wrightii'' (Lundy cabbage), '' Coincya cheiranthos'' (nokkasinapit) and ''Coinc ...

'') bears his name, as do species with the specific epithet of ''huteri''. an example being '' Ligusticum huteri''.

Associated writings

* ''Flora der Gefässpflanzen von Höhlenstein und der nächsten Umgebung'', 1872 –

Vascular plant Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes (, ) or collectively tracheophyta (; ), are plants that have lignin, lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified Ti ...

s of Höhlenstein and its immediate vicinity. * ''Herbar-Studien''. Wien Selbstverl, 1908 – Herbarium studies. * "Die Gattung Hieracium L. (Compositae) im Herbarium Rupert Huter (Vinzentinum Brixen, BRIX) kommentiertes Verzeichnis mit taxonomischen und nomenklatorischen Ergänzungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Typus-Belege", part of the series "Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Innsbruck); Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum", Günter Gottschlich (2007).Google Books
Die Gattung Hieracium L. (Compositae) im Herbarium Rupert Huter (Vinzentinum Brixen, BRIX)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huter, Rupert 1834 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Austrian botanists 19th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests People from Lienz District