Hans Schinz
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In 1884 he participated in an exploratory expedition to German Southwest Africa that was organized by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886). For the next few years Schinz undertook extensive scientific studies of the northern parts of the colony. As a result of the expedition, he published ''Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Forschungsreisen durch die deutschen Schutzgebiete Groß- Nama- und Hereroland, nach dem Kunene, dem Ngamisee und Kalahari 1884-1887'' (German South West Africa: Research Expedition of Herero and Nama Country, the Kunene Region, Lake Ngami and the Kalahari; 1884–1887). This work was an important scientific, geographic and ethnographic study of the colony, and was one of the first comprehensive works on the Ovamboland region. It was during this expedition that he made the acquaintance of the Finnish missionary Martti Rautanen (1845–1926) at Olukonda, and named the tree ''Ricinodendron rautanenii'' after him.
In 1889 he received his habilitation at Zürich, where in 1895 he became a professor and director of the botanical gardens. With Robert Keller (1854–1939), he was the author of ''Flora der Schweiz'', a work on Swiss flora that published over several editions from 1900 to 1923.
Several taxa have been named in his honour; In 1889, Swiss botanist Victor Fayod published ''Schinzinia'', which is a fungal genus in the family Agaricaceae. Also in 1889, ''Melioschinzia'' (in the Meliaceae family), was published by K.Schum., this genus is now a synonym of ''Chisocheton''. ''Schinzafra'' (in Bruniaceae family) was published by Kuntze in 1891, this genus is now a synonym of ''Thamnea''. Then in 1895, botanist Ernst Friedrich Gilg published ''Schinziella'', a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Africa, belonging to the family Gentianaceae. Lastly, from the Euphorbiaceae family, ''Schinziophyton'' was published in Kew Bull. 45: 157 (in 1990) by Hutch. ex Radcl.Sm.
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Published: 1895
Superior document: Conspectus florae Africae ou énumération des plantes dʹAfrique Vol. 5
Links: Volltext // 2010 digitalisiert vom: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. Exemplar der Peter H. Raven Library, of the Missouri Botanical Garden mit der Signatur: QK381.D95 v.5
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Published: 1898
Superior document: Conspectus florae Africae ou énumération des plantes dʹAfrique Vol. 1, Dicotyledones, 2eme pt
Links: Volltext // 2007 digitalisiert von der: Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Exemplar der Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, mit der Signatur: A-20676 und der Buchnummer: 0-0301-0013600-8
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Published: 1894-1898
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Published: 1896
Superior document: Études sur la flore de lʹétat indépendant du Congo 1. partie
Links: Volltext // digitalisiert von der : Bibliothéque Nationale de France. Exemplar der Bibliothéque des Institutes des Recherches Agronomiques, mit der Signatur 256.1108