Hans Schinz

Hans Schinz (6 December 1858 – 30 October 1941) was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich.

As a result of the expedition, he published Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Forschungsreisen durch die deutschen Schutzgebiete Groß- Nama- und Hereroland, nach dem Kunene, dem Ngamisee und Kalahari 1884-1887 (German South West Africa: Research Expedition of Herero and Nama Country, the Kunene Region, Lake Ngami and the Kalahari; 1884–1887).

It was during this expedition that he made the acquaintance of the Finnish missionary Martti Rautanen (1845–1926) at Olukonda, and named the tree Ricinodendron rautanenii after him.

[3][4] Several taxa have been named in his honour; In 1889, Swiss botanist Victor Fayod published Schinzinia, which is a fungal genus in the family Agaricaceae.

[7] Then in 1895, botanist Ernst Friedrich Gilg published Schinziella, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Africa, belonging to the family Gentianaceae.