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### Author
Rau, Ambrosius (1784-1830), German botanist and mineralogist; professor of natural history, forestry and rural economy at the University of Würzburg.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Rau* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Rau*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown. – The majority of the herbarium collections at Würzburg ([[Collection WB|WB]]) were destroyed in World War II.
#### Bibliography and biography
Bamhart 3: 130 (b. 7 Mar 1784, d. 26 Jan 1830); BM 4: 1650; Herder p. 342; Kew 4: 410; PR 7427, ed. 1: 8371; Rehder 2: 284; Tucker 1: 582-583.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Flora 2: 524. 1819 (visit Würzburg), 13: 256. 1830 (d. 26 Jan 1830).
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 574. 1863 (bibl.).
#### Eponymy
*Rauia* C.G.D. Nees et C.F.P. Martius (1823); *Ravia* J.A. Schultes (1824, *orth. var.*).
### Publications
##### n.8649. Enumeratio rosarum circa Wirceburgum
**Title**
*Enumeratio rosarum circa Wirceburgum* et pagos adjacentes sponte crescentium, cum earum definitionibus, descriptionibus et synonymis, secundum novam methodum disposita et speciebus varietatibusque novis aucta... Norimbergae \[Nürnberg\] (sumptibus Caroli Felssecker) 1816. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Enum. ros. Wirceb.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1816 (p. 12: 2 Mar 1816), p. \[1\]-178, \[1-2, err.\], \[1, expl. pl.\], *1 pl*. (handcol. copp. I. Sturm). *Copies*: BR (pl. in duplo), G, HH, M, NY, USDA, WU.