Eduard August von Regel
Regel as the Director of the Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg
Born	(1815-08-13)August 13, 1815 Gotha, Germany
Died	April 15, 1892(1892-04-15) (aged 76) St. Petersburg, Russia
Occupation	Botanist, Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg.

Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born August 13, 1815 in Gotha, died April 15, 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg.^[1] As a result of naturalists and explorers sending back biological collections, Regel was able to describe and name many previously unknown species from frontiers around the world.

History[link]

Regel earned degrees from the Gott Gymnasium in Germany and from the University of Bonn.

He began his career at the Royal Garden Limonaia in Gotha and then went as a volunteer to the botanical garden in Göttingen. He later worked at gardens in Bonn and Berlin. In 1842 he moved to Switzerland to become the head of the Old Botanical Garden, Zürich. During this time he also worked as a Professor of science. In 1852 he founded the magazine "Gartenflora" (Garden Flora), in which he described many new species.

In 1855 he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia where he initially worked as a research director and later as senior botanist at the Imperial Botanical Garden. From 1875 until his death in 1892 he served as the director of the Imperial Botanical Garden. While there he oversaw the creation of some of the gardens (e.g. the Admiralty garden) and the facility laboratory. He was a founder and vice-president of the Russian Gardening Society and a number of academic journals.^[2] In 1875 he became an associate member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Volume 111 of Curtis's Botanical Magazine is dedicated to him.

In 1892 he was buried at the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Plants named by him[link]

During the course of his life, Regel described and named over 3000 new plant species.^[3] Many of the plants he named were from the Russian Far East and Asia as Russian Geographical Society expeditions where active in this area during his tenure at the Imperial Botanical Gardens in St. Petersburg.

Plants named for him[link]

In 1843, J.C.Schauer named the genus Regelia in honor of Regel. It is a group of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae which are endemic to the southwest Australia. In 1854 Planchon named a species of Cestrum regeli (Potato family) after him.

Publications[link]

Regel was an extremely prolific scientist and author. In addition to writing a number of major reference works in botany, he published an amazing 3,101 articles in academic journals.^[2]

Selected publications[link]

• Allgemeines Gartenbuch (General garden book) 2 Vols., Zurich 1855, 1868
• Monographia Betulacearum (in: Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 13: 59-187, 1861)
• Tentamen florae ussuriensis (Tentamen flora of the Ussuri River Region), 1861
• Alliorum adhuc cognitorum monographia, 1875
• Tentamen rosarum monographiae (Monograph of Roses), 1877

Associates[link]

• Richard Maack Russian botanist, co-author, naturalist, and Siberian explorer.
• Johann Albert von Regel (1845–1908; oldest son) Swiss born Russian Physician, botanist, traveler.^[5]

References[link]

Andreas Rebers (born 7 January 1958, Westerbrak) is an award-winning Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano.^[1]

Early life[link]

Rebers was born in Westerbrak in Lower Saxony. By the age of 15, Rebers' band Los Promillos which he founded with his brothers is a success in his local area of Weserbergland and brings him a certain degree of financial independence.^[1] After school, he successfully studied at the University of Hannover to become a teacher.^[2] It was also at the university where he made his first contacts to independent theaters and the art of Kabarett. After his first studies, he also earned a degree in pedagogy.^[2] He taught himself playing the piano and learned playing the accordion from Thomas Aßmus from 1984 to 1988, an instrument which he calls "Strapsmaus" and uses in his shows since then.^[3][4][5]

Artistic career[link]

From 1989 to 1997, Rebers was the director of plays at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.^[1] From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the Lach- und Schießgesellschaft in Munich before starting a solo career.^[4]

Rebers often made guest appearance on various German Kabarett shows, such as Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt or Ottfried Fischer's Ottis Schlachthof which exposed him to a larger audience and increased his popularity.^[6][7]

Style[link]

Rebers' Kabarett is musical in nature and relies on songs to bring his message across. He sees his music in the tradition of classical worker's songs like those composed by Bert Brecht.^[8] His style has been described as complicated and nasty satire^[9] which lead to him being compared to Austrian Kabarett artist Josef Hader.^[2]

Awards[link]

• Wolfsburger Wolf (2000)
• Prix Pantheon: audience award Beklatscht & Ausgebuht (2003)
• Das große Kleinkunstfestival (2005)
• Sprungbrett (20068)
• Salzburger Stier (2006)
• Stern des Jahres of the Abendzeitung in the category Kabarett (2006)
• Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis in the category Kabarett (2008)
• Deutscher Kabarettpreis (2008)

Releases[link]

• Ich mag mich trotzdem (2000) ISBN 3-931780-75-9
• Ziemlich dicht (2002) ISBN 3-7857-1238-3
• Nebenan und nebenbei (2004) ISBN 3-7857-1460-2
• Lieber vom Fachmann (2007) ISBN 3-86604-712-6

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official homepage

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Bero Bass (born Bernas Avşar, on 11 April 1980 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a German rapper of Kurdish origin, though he is currently settled in Cologne.

Biography[link]

In July 2009 he was imprisoned after furiously attacking a 26 year old male with a knife. He was awaiting his trial in prison before being released on bail in December 2009.^[1]

While he was in Jail his long time friend OJ Kingpin, with whom he performed by the name La Honda as a rap duo, left the rap business, claiming gangster rap has no future and that they never earned any money from rapping.

Bero Bass has recently released a track named Blick Richtung Sonne together with Bonn based rapper Xatar and the Kurdish folk singer Şivan Perwer.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 2007: Gorillas im Nebel (with OJ Kingpin as La Honda)
• 2008: La Honda Nostra (with OJ Kingpin as La Honda)
• 2009: Basstime
• 2011: Gangstafilm

Other Release[link]

• 2007: Ich bin ein Outlaw (as La Honda with Eko Fresh and Outlawz)
• 2009: 8 Kammern (with Manuellsen)
• 2009: Playerhater
• 2009: San Quentin
• 2009: Das Leben ist
• 2010: Kölner JVA
• 2010: Ich mach es (with La Honda Allstars)

References[link]

1. ^ Kölnische Rundschau, 29.07.09: "Rapper „Bero Bass“ in U-Haft"

External links[link]

• Official website