Carl Ludwig Blume

Carl Ludwig Blume, also known as Karl Ludwig von Blume or Karel Lodewijk Blume, was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist, born in Braunschweig in 1796. He studied at Leiden and spent most of his career in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. From 1823 to 1826 he was deputy director of agriculture at the Bogor Botanical Gardens on Java, and he later directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden. He made extensive studies of the flora of Southeast Asia and published influential works including Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indie and Rumphia. With Philipp Franz von Siebold he co-founded a Dutch society for the encouragement of horticulture in 1842. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1855, and the journal Blumea is named after him. He died in 1862.