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> [!example] See also [[Fischer von Waldheim, Alexander A. (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Fischer von Waldheim, Alexander Alexandrovitch (1839-1920), Russian botanist, grandson of G. Fischer von Waldheim.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Fisch. v. Waldh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.A.Fisch.Waldh.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection MW|MW]] (phan.), and [[Collection WA|WA]] (crypt.), fide Candolle; no recent information available to us.
*Ref*.: Candolle, Phytographie 412. 1880.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 544; CSP 9: 873; TR 363-371.
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Bergiani 3(2): 173. 1903.
- Lipskij, Imperatorskij S.-Petersbourgskij botanischeskij sad sa 200 let 3: 101-108. 1913-1915 (portr., bibl.)
#### Name
Not to be confused with his father, Alexander Grigoriewitch F.v.W. (1803-1884), plant anatomist and microscopist, author of e.g. *De interna plantarum fabrica* (1820) and *Le microscope pancratique*, 1841, vice-president and president of the Société imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1853-1884. Alexander Alexandrovitch (see Trautvetter and Bretschneider) was the author of several bryological and mycological papers and later director of the St. Petersburg botanical garden.
#### Eponymy
For eponyms based on the name Fischer, cf. supra sub E. and F. E. L. Fischer.
#### Handwriting
Candollea 29: 507-508. 1974.
### Publications
##### n.1796. Florula bryologica mosquensis
**Title**
*Florula bryologica mosquensis*. Moskva (Typis Universitatis caesareae) 1864. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. bryol. mosq.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1864, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-165. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted from Bull. Soc. Imp. des Nat. Moscou 37(1): 1-95, 1864, 37(3): 1-71.
*Ref*.: Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 23: 10-11. 1865 (6 Jan).
##### n.1797. Aperçu systématique des Ustilaginées
**Title**
*Aperçu systématique des Ustilaginées* leur plantes nourricières et la localisation de leurs spores. Paris (Typographic Lahure) 1877. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Aperçu syst. Ustilag.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.:Apr-Mai 1877 (p. 8: Mar 1877; Bot. Zeit. 18 Mai 1877), p. \[1\]-51, \[2, err.\]. *Copy*: G. – Dedicated to the Amsterdam Botanical Congress.