> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 8](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355119) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5564-1) LSID 5564-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21519027) QID Q21519027 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Lichtenstein, August Gerhard Gottfried (1780(?)-1851), German botanist at Helmstädt. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Licht.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Licht.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. H's considerable herbarium (45.000 specimens) was sold after his death. It contained material collected and/or distributed by Hohenacker, Hochstetter, Drège, Hampe, etc. #### Dates BM and PR give *b*. 1780, but Barnhart notes that this is a confusion with the zoologist and surgeon Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (b. 10 Jan 1780, d.d 3 Sep 1857; see Bonplandia 5: 330, 6: 337) who collected also botanical material during his stay in South Africa (1802-1806) (see e.g. Lasègue and Zep-Tim, p. 75; "Hinrich"; Dr. med. Helmstedt 1802; from 1809 in Berlin; founder, 1844, of the Zoolog. Garten and its director until 1857). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 378; BM 3: 1109, 4: 1552; Herder p. 138; Jackson p. 15; Kew 3: 437; PR 5287 (ed. 1: 5860); Rehder 5: 509. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 9: 856, 925-926. 1851 (herb. for sale); Flora 35: 79. 1852; Österr. bot. W. 2: 7. 1852 (herb. for sale), 2: 44. 1852 (d. 3 Sep 1851). #### Eponymy *Lichtensteinia* Willdenow (1808, *nom. rej.*). *Lichtensteinia* Wendland (1808, *nom. rej.*), and *Lichtensteinia* Chamisso & Schlechtendal (1826, *nom. cons.*) are dedicated to Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (1780-1857), German zoologist and botanist, who travelled and made botanical collections in Southern Africa (1802-1806). ### Publications ##### n.4500. Index alphabeticus generum botanicarum **Title** *Index alphabeticus generum botanicarum* quotquot a Willdenovio in speciebus plantarum et a Persoonio in synopsi plantarum recensentur concinnatus ab A. G. G. Lichtenstein,... Helmstadii (impressus typis Leuckartiorum patris et filii.) 1814. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Index gen. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1814, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-88. *Copies*: B (photocopy), G, HH.