Gertrud Bartusch


Gertrud Bartusch, also known as Gertrud Fuchs-Henel, was a German botanical illustrator known for her plates in 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae Occidentalis' by F.L.E.Diels & E.Pritzel, 'Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Südsee', t. 3* by Schumann, K.M., and Lauterbach, K., and Rudolf Marloth's 'Flora of South Africa'. She worked at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.
The genus Gertrudia now known as Gertrudiella in the family Flacourtiaceae was named after her.

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Bartusch was the daughter of Rudolf Fuchs-Henel, a merchant, and Romanian Consul-General in Breslau. She married Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach, German explorer and botanist, in Breslau in 1892.