> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 4](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120097) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/50-1) LSID 50-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365923) QID Q365923 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Acharius, Erik (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Acharius, Erik (1757-1819), Swedish lichenologist, pupil of Linnaeus, physician at Vadstena. **Abbreviated name**: *Achar.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ach.*\] #### Herbarium and types Lichens at Helsinki ([[Collection H|H]]), phanerogams and other cryptogams at Lund ([[Collection LD|LD]]). Types in part also at [[Collection BM|BM]] (a set of duplicates originally given to [[Collection LINN|LINN]]). Other isotypes at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection UPS|UPS]]. – Correspondence at Uppsala. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 26. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 10: 742. 1852. - Candolle, Phytographie 391. 1880. - Koster, Taxon 18: 549. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 9; BM 1: 8; Bossert p. 2; CSP 1: 9-10; Dawson p. 5; DTS 1: 1; GR p. 469; IF p. 675; Frank p. 1; Kew 1: 5; KR p. 2-4 (bibl.); Lasègue 320, 339, 344; LS 657-678; Moebius p. 108, 110, 112; MW p. 1; NBG 1: 179; PR 8-11. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 132 \[index\]. 1800. - Berzelius, Kongl. Vetenskaps Acad. Handl. ser. 2. 7: 299-305. 1819, German transl. by Krempelhuber, Flora 51: 101-107. 1868. - Wikström, Conspectus 3-8. 1831. - Candolle, Mémoires et souvenirs 141. 1862. - Scheutz, Bot. Not. 1863: 66. - Coemans, Bull. Acad. r. Belg. 34: 32-49. 1865. - Krempelhuber, Gesch. Litt. Lichenologie 1: 96-98, 112-114, 194-196. 1867, 2: 61-68, 79-88. 1869. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 26. 1903; 3(3): 1. *pl. 37*. 1905. (portr.) - Sernander, Sv. biogr. lex. 1: 38-40. 1918. - Fries, Short history of botany in Sweden 52-53. 1950. - Eriksson, DSB 1: 45-46. 1970. #### Eponymy *Acharia* Thunberg (1794). ### Publications ##### n.8. Planta Aphyteia **Title** D.D. *Planta Aphyteia*, quam dissertatione botanica illustratam... praeside... Carolo a Linné... publicae disquisitioni offert auctor Ericus Acharius... in aud. Carol, major, d. xxii jun. mdcclxxvi. h.a.m.s. Uppsala (Edmann) \[1776\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Aphyteia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Jun 1776, p. \[1\]-12, \[1, expl. pl.\], 1 *pl. Copies*: G, HU, MO, NY. – *Planta Aphyteia* is *Hydnora* Thunberg 1775. This dissertation defended under Linnaeus, must be attributed to the *auctor* Acharius (see also KR). *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; Kew 1: 5; KR p. 2; PR 5524; SO 1313, 2457-2458. ##### n.9. Lichenographiae sueciae prodromus **Title** *Lichenographiae sueciae prodromus*. Linköping (Björn) 1798. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Lichenogr. suec. prodr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1798, after 20 Feb (p. xvii). p. \[i\*-ii\*\], engr. col. t.p., \[1, dedic.\], \[i\]-xxiv, 1-264, *pl. 1-2*, col. copper engr. *Copies*: L, UC, P. M. Jørgensen, Stevenson. – The coloured t.p. turns black in some copies. Other copies have the engraved t.p. uncoloured. (inf. P. M. Jørgensen). *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; KR p. 2; LS 662; PR 8. ##### n.10. Methodus **Title** *Methodus* qua omnes detectos lichenes secundum organa carpomorpha ad genera, species et varietates redigere atque observationibus illustrare tentavit Erik Acharius. Stockholm (F. D. D. Ulrich) 1803. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Methodus*. **Notes** *Sectio prior*.: Jan-Apr 1803 (Acharius sent a copy to Banks on 28 Apr), p. \[i\*\], \[iii\*\], \[i\]-lv, \[1\]-152. *Copies*: BR, G, HU, L, NY. *Sectio post*.: Jan-Apr 1803, p. \[i\], \[153\]-393, \[394, err.\], *pl. 1-8. Copies*: BR, G, HU, L, NY. *Supplement*: Mai-Dec 1803 (pref. Calend. Apr. 1803; ALZ Aug 1804), p. \[i\]-iv, \[5\]-52. *Copies*: BR, G, HU, L, NY. – Title: *Supplementum species quamplures novas descriptas nec* *non observationes varias complectens, quod praeviae suae methodo lichenum adiunxit auctor* \[Leipzig 1803\], Oct. *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; KR p. 2; LS 663; PR 9; IDC 1077. - Acharius, *in* Weber et Mohr, Arch. syst. Naturg. 1(1): 83-110. 1804. - Weber und Mohr, Nat. Reise 78-94. 1804. - Dawson, The Banks letters 5. 1958. ##### n.11. Lichenographia universalis **Title** *Lichenographia universalis*. In qua lichenes omnes detectos, adjectis observationibus et figuris horum vegetabilium naturam et organorum carpomorphorum structuram illustrantibus, ad genera, species, varietates differentiis et observationibus sollicite definitas redegit. Göttingen (J. F. Danckwerts). 1810. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Lichenogr. universalis*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1810, probably Apr-Mai (Ostermesse 1810, fide Ann. Forst. Jagd.-Wiss. 1(2): 133. 1811), p. \[i\*-xi\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-696, *pl. 1-14*, col. copper engravings. *Copies*: Stevenson, U. – Many of the new taxa in the *Lichenographia* were validly published previously by Acharius in Luyken, Tent. Hist. Lich. 1809. *Facsimile ed*.: Announced for 1976, Richmond Publishing Co. (intr. by O. Vitikainen). *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; DTS 1: 1; KR p. 3; LS 669; MW p. 1; NI 1; Plesch p. 121; PR 10; IDC 515. - Flörke, Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin Mag. 4: 248-261. 1810 (critical commentary). - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 1: 2. 1975 (sold at £ 130). ##### n.12. Synopsis methodica lichenum **Title** *Synopsis methodica lichenum*, sistens omnes hujus ordinis naturalis detectas plantas, quas, secundum genera, species et varietates disposuit, characteribus et differentiis emendatis definivit, nee non synonymis et observationibus selectis illustravit auctor. Lund (Svanborg et Soc.) 1814. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. meth. lich.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1814, p. \[i\*\], \[iii\*\], \[v\*\], \[i\]-xiii, \[1\]-392. *Copies*: BR, G, HU, L, MO, NY, Stevenson. – Frontispiece portr. Acharius. An indispensable index and supplement to the *Lichenographia universalis* of 1810. The preface is dated 18 Nov 1812 \[sic\]. The announcement and review in Isis (v. Oken) and other German periodicals refer to availability at the Michaelmas fair (Sep-Oct) of 1816, and cite a Hamburg imprint. This, however, was the location of the German agent. We have seen only copies of the Lund 1814 issue; an imprint "Hamburg 1816" does not seem to exist. *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; KR p. 3; LS 672; MW 1; PR 11; IDC 516. - Oken, Isis 16(5): 548-552. 1825. - Coemans, Bull. Acad. roy. Belg. 34: 32-49. 1865 (rev. *Cladonia*).