Paul Ernst Emil Sintenis (4. 4. 1847 Seidenberg

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, Oberlausitz, Prussia

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 - ?. ?. 1907, ?) was a German

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 botanist, pharmacist

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 and plant collector.
He studied at the gymnasium in Görlitz

Görlitz

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, became a pharmacist’s apprentice in 1863 and worked as such in several German cities.

His first collecting trip, in the years 1872-1876, was as helper to his brother Max, with whom he collected birds, mammals and plants in the Dobruja

Dobruja

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.

After further pharmaceutical studies in Breslau (now Wrocław) and another short stint as pharmacist, he spent the rest of his professional life as plant collector.

Between the years 1880 – 1883 he collected on Rhodes

Rhodes

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, Cyprus

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, Northern Italy

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, and Istria

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.

Sintenis arrived in Puerto Rico

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 in October 1884 and, supported by L. Krug

Karl Wilhelm Leopold Krug

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, remained there until June 1887.

He subsequently collected in Turkey

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, Syria

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, Irak, Turkmenistan

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, Iran

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, and Greece

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. Sintenis's herbarium was acquired by Lund University

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 (Sweden), where it is still kept. The first set of his Puerto Rican collections was mostly destroyed at Dahlem (Berlin)

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 during the Second World War, but duplicates survived in all major herbaria, primarily Kew

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, the British Museum

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, Harvard, New York Botanical Garden

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, and the National Museum of Natural History

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in Washington.

Sources

• Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S. 1985. Taxonomic literature. Vol. 5: Sal-Ste. 2nd ed. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht/Antwerpen.
• Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:127,1902.