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B. P. G. (Bénédict Pierre Georges) Hochreutiner
1873–1959
A Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist, he built a career around careful plant study, museum work, and botanical exploration. His writing reflects the patient, field-based science that shaped early 20th-century botany.
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Le Sud-Oranais: études floristiques et phytogéographiques faites au cours d'une exploration dans le Sud-Ouest de l'Algérie en 1901
by B. P. G. (Bénédict Pierre Georges) Hochreutiner
About the author
Born in Saint-Gall in 1873, he studied theology and natural sciences in Geneva before moving fully into botany. In 1896 he became an assistant to John Isaac Briquet at Geneva's Conservatory and Botanical Garden, beginning a long association with one of Switzerland's key botanical institutions.
Hochreutiner worked as a botanist, taxonomist, curator, and later professor, and he is remembered especially for his work describing and classifying plants. He also carried out field research, including a scientific trip to Algeria in 1901, and spent time associated with the botanical gardens and herbarium in Buitenzorg, now Bogor, in 1903–1905.
He died in Geneva in 1959. In botanical literature, his standard author abbreviation is Hochr., a small sign of how lasting his contribution was: plant names he published still carry that mark.