> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 28](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265225) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/598-1) LSID 598-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4719276) QID Q4719276 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Becker, Alexander|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Becker, Alexander (1818-1901), Russian botanist, entomologist and musician (organ player) at Sarepta, son of a Hessen-Darmstadt migrant (Kaspar Becker), educated in Sarepta schools (incl. a gymnasium), in St. Petersburg 1832-1834 employed in a commercial establishment, id. in Moscow 1834-1836; school teacher at Sarepta 1836-1840, organist 1836-1868, in addition making a living by selling botanical exsiccatae and entomological collections, based on collecting trips around Sarepta and on expeditions to Saratow and Astrakan Government; major collector for the St. Petersburg herbarium (LE). **Abbreviated name**: *A.K. Becker* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.K.Becker*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]] (main collections), further material (mostly distributed in series of exsiccatae) in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BHU|BHU]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]] (Steven), [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TU|TU]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WAG|WAG]], [[Collection WB|WB]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]; Berlin-Paläo., Akad. Wiss. – Many plants were distributed via Hohenacker (see also TL-2/1: 161). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 465; Barnhart 1: 149 (b. 18/30 Aug 1818, Sarepta, d. 3/16 Apr 1901, Sarepta); Bossert p. 31; Clokie p. 129; CSP 1: 229-230, 7: 117, 9: 160-161; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 64; Jackson p. 330; Kew 1: 198; Lipschitz 215-217, 1545, 1547; Rehder 5(index): 62; TL-2/1: 161; TR 22-24 (bibl. nos. 63-79); Tucker 1: 69; Urban-Berl. p. 328. #### Biofile - Anon., Insektenbörse 18: 153. 1901; Ann. bryol. 9: 154. 1937. - Becker, A., ÖBZ 39: 420. 1889 (his herbarium of 100.000 for sale). - Blum, J., Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. Abh. 1901: 10. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 395. 1880 (main coll. at LE). - Egle, K. and G. Rosenstock, Gesch. Bot. Frankfurt a. Main 14. 1966. - Fresenius, J.B.G.W., Flora 16(2): 766-767. 1833, 17(1): 24-29. 1834. - Herder, F. v., Bot. Centralbl. 55: 263, 296, 297. 1893, 58: 389, 390, 392. 1894 (coll. at LE). - Hohenacker, R. Fr., Flora 38: 224, 240. 1855. - Lack, H.W. and O. v. Sydow, Willdenowia 13: 412. 1983 (letters to Halácsy and Keck at UPS-UB). - Lindemann, E.E. von, Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 59(1): 276. 1884. - Wirén, R., Acta Horti bot. Univ. Jurj. 2: 126-129. 1901 (biogr. sketch, portr., bibl. of 27 botanical publications); Rev. Russ. Entom. 1: 130-133. 1901. ### Publications ##### n.20.631. Reise in die Kirgisensteppe **Title** *Reise in die Kirgisensteppe*. Nach Astrachan und an das Caspische Meer... Moskau (In der Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Universität...) 1866. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1866, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-45. *Copies*: G, HH. – Preprinted or reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 39(2): 163-207. 1866. – TR 69. ##### n.20.632. Noch einige Mittheilungen über Astrachaner **Title** *Noch einige Mittheilungen über Astrachaner* und Saraptaër *Pflanzen und Insekten*... Moskau (in der Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Universität...) 1867. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867 (p. 12: mss. dated 20 Apr 1867), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-12. *Copy*: G. – Preprinted or reprinted from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 40(1): 104-115. 1867. – TR 70. *Previous publications* on Astrakan and/or Sarepta plants and insects (TR 65, 66, 68): a) *Verzeichniss der um Sarepta wild wachsenden Pflanzen*, Bull Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 31(1): 1-85. 1858. (no reprint seen neither by us nor by TR). b) *Naturhistorische Mittheilungen* von den Jahren 1856 und 1857 *über die* den Entomologen wichtigsten *Gewächse der Sareptaer Umgegend*..., ib. 31(2): 159-187. 1858 (no reprint seen, as above). c) *Mittheilungen* einer *botanischen* und *entomologischen Reise*, ib. 38(1): 562-582. 1865. – Also reprinted, 21 p. (fide TR). ##### n.20.633. Reise nach dem Kaukasus **Title** *Reise nach dem Kaukasus*... Moskau (In der Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Universität) 1868. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1868 (p. 45: mss. dated 1 Mai 1868), p. \[1\]-45. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 41(1): 191-233. 1868. – TR 71. ##### n.20.634. Reise nach Mangyschlak **Title** *Reise nach Mangyschlak*... \[Moscou (in der Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Universität) 1870\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1870, p. \[1\]-13, \[14\]. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 43(1): 115-127. 1870. – TR 73. Lists 47 phan. from Mangyschlak Peninsula. ##### n.20.635. Reise nach Temir-Chan-Schora und Derbent **Title** *Reise nach Temir-Chan-Schora und Derbent* mit Ergaenzungen zur Fauna \[und Flora\] von Astrachan und Sarepta... \[Moskau (In der Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Universität...) 1871\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1871, p. \[1\]-13. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 44(1): 290-302. 1871. – Has lists of plants around Temir-Chan-Schora (152 sp.), and Derbent (58 sp.). ##### n.20.636. Reise nach den Salzseen Baskuntschatskaje und Elton **Title** *Reise nach den Salzseen Baskuntschatskaje und Elton*, nach Schilling, Anton, Astrachan nebst Mittheilungen über das Vorkommen mehrerer Käfer und Fliegen in jenen Gegenden... \[Moskau (Typographie der Universität) 1872\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1872, p. \[1\]-24. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 45(2): 102-124. 1872. – TR 75 (giving details on bot.). ##### n.20.637. Reise nach Baku **Title** *Reise nach Baku*, Lenkoran, Derbent, Madschalis, Kasum Kent, Achty... \[Moskau (Typographie der Universität) 1873\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1873, p. \[1\]-30. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 46(1): 229-258. 1873. – TR 76 (mentions botanical observ.). ##### n.20.638. Beiträge zu meinen Verzeichnissen der um Sarepta **Title** *Beiträge zu meinen Verzeichnissen der um Sarepta* und am Bogdo *vorkommenden Pflanzen* und Insekten, und Beschreibung einer Mylabris-Larve... \[Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou... 1880\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880, p. \[1\]-12. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 55: 145-156. 1880. ##### n.20.639. Reise nach dem südlichen Daghestan **Title** *Reise nach dem südlichen Daghestan*... \[Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou... 1882\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1882, p. \[1\]-20. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 56(2): 189-208. 1882. ##### n.20.640. Reise nach Chanskaja Stafka **Title** *Reise nach Chanskaja Stafka* und zum grossen Bogdoberg... \[Moskva 1884\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1884 (p. 11 mss. dated 13 Apr 1884), p. \[1\]-11. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 60: 167-177. 1884. – Botany on p. 10-11. ##### n.20.641. Ueber Taraxacum- und Glycyrrhiza-Arten **Title** *Ueber Taraxacum- und Glycyrrhiza-Arten* und Alhagi camelorum... \[Moskva... 1887\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1887 (p. 5: mss. dated 1 Feb 1887), p. \[1\]-5. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou ser. 2. 1: 222-226. 1887.