Genus Ruthea

For Johann Friedrich Ruthe (Ruthé or von Ruthe) (1788–1859), German teacher, botanist and entomologist with a special interest in Hymenoptera and Diptera. He studied botany at the University of Berlin in 1811 and became a schoolteacher in Berlin and Frankfurt, but retired early in 1842 because of ill health. Among his publications was a textbook on zoology, Handbuch der Zoologie, with co-author Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1802–1841), and Flora der Mark Brandenburg und der Niederlausitz Pflanzen (1827, 1834).