Genus Rivina

For Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1652–1723), born August Bachmann, German botanist and physician, professor of botany and physiology at the University of Leipzig (1691), and also curator of the university’s garden of medicinal plants. In 1701, he became professor of pathology and, in 1719, professor of therapeutics and permanent dean of the faculty of medicine. That same year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He authored Introductio Generalis in rem Herbariam (Leipzig, 1690), a classification of plants based on the structure of flowers, mainly the shape of the corolla, as well as three other books on plant orders.