Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was a Baltic German botanist who lived and worked mainly in Imperial Russia.Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was born in Kandava, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire, and studied in Jelgava to become an apothecary. In 1858 he moved to Tartu in present-day Estonia and worked there as an assistant to the head of the Botanical Garden there. In 1858-59 he participated in the Russian Geographical Society's scientific expedition to Khorasan. He then stayed in Tartu until 1872, when he moved to Riga and took up a position at Riga Technical University. The genus Bienertia is named in honour of him by Alexander Bunge.*
