> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 65](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264792) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/129-1) LSID 129-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62876) QID Q62876 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Alefeld, Friedrich Georg Christoph|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Alefeld, Friedrich (Georg Christoph) (1820-1872), German botanist, educated at Gymnasia in Worms and Darmstadt, at the Landesuniversität Giessen studying medicine 1839-1840, id. at Heidelberg 1840-1842, took his doctor's degree (Dr. med.) at Giessen 23 Sep 1843, physician at the Julius hospital Würzburg 1843-1844, medical state examination Mai 1844 in Darmstadt, settled in Nieder-Modau nr. Darmstadt practising medicine 1844-1847, id. in Ober-Ramstadt nr. Darmstadt 1847-1872. **Abbreviated name**: *Alef.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alef.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (p.p. destroyed; Viceae rd. 1861). #### Major study J. Helm, 100 Jahre Kulturpflanzen-Taxonomie, Kulturpflanze 12: 75-92. 1964 (b. 21 Oct 1820, Gräfenhausen nr. Darmstadt, d. 28 Apr 1872, Ober-Ramstadt nr. Darmstadt, handwriting sample, biobibliography listing 93 publ.). #### Name Alefeld was sometimes called "Lechdringhausen", a name also used occasionally by himself from 1863 on, exclusively in some of his publications, viz. his *Phytobalneologie* 1863, *Bienen-Flora* ed. 2. 1863 and also on the t.p. of the *Landwirtschaftliche Flora*: "... beschrieben von Dr. Friedrich Alefeld gen. \[genannt, called\] Lechdringhausen" (see J. Helm, Kulturpflanze 12: 77, footnote 1. 1964.). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 678; Barnhart 1: 32; BM 1: 27; CSP 1: 40-41, 7: 19; De Toni 2: vi; Frank 3(Anh.): 4; Hortus 3: 1187; IH 2: 30; Kew 1: 32; Langman p. 73; MW p. 73; MW suppl. p. 4; PR 95-96; Rehder 5 (index): 9; RS p. 72; TL-1: 4; TL-2/1: 29, TL-2/5: C.H. Schultz (epon.); Urban-Berl. p. 324; Zander ed. 10, p. 627, ed. 11, p. 713. #### Biofile - Alefeld, F.G.C., Bonplandia 10: 177-180. 1862 ("Ueber den Honigthau"). - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 21: 376. 1863 (apptd. member Naturf. Ges. Halle); ÖBZ 22: 340. 1872 (d. 28 Apr 1872 from pneumonia). - Helm, J., Kulturpfl. 12: 75-92. 1964 (major study), 14: 441-445. 1966 (letter to Bentham, handwriting; sent copy of *Landw. Fl.* to Bentham "vor einigen Tagen" 10 Mai 1866; facsimile of letter). - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 24: 189-191. 14 Sep 1866 (*Landw. Fl.* publ.). - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 16(1): 57. 1967 (rev. facs. ed. *Landw. Fl.*). #### Handwriting *in* J. Helm, Kulturpflanze 12: 78. 1964. ### Publications ##### n.19.012. Die Bienenflora Deutschlands **Title** *Die Bienenflora Deutschlands* und der Schweiz,... Darmstadt (In commission bei G.W. Küchler) 1856. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bienenfl.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1856, n.v. *Ed. 2*: 1863, p. \[i, t.p.\], \[1\]-170, \[i\]-v, \[vi, err.\]. *Copy*: B-S. "... bearbeitet von Dr. Friedrich Alefeld, gen. \[called\] Lechdringhausen..." Neuwied (Verlag der J.H. Heufer'schen Buchhandlung) 1863. Oct. *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 17: 310. 9 Sep 1859 (review of ed. 1). ##### n.19.013. Landwirtschaftliche Flora **Title** *Landwirtschaftliche Flora*... see TL-2/81. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1-7 Mai 1866 (see Helm, J. 1966 (note 1); ÖBZ 1 Nov 1866; Flora 29 Jun 1867). *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 24: 289-290. 14 Sep 1866 (rev.); Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 16: 57. 1967 (review of facs. ed., Koeltz 1966). ##### n.19.014. Bipontinia **Title** *Bipontinia*, eine neue Pflanzengattung,... \[Jahresbericht Pollichia... 1866\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1866, p. \[121\]-124. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Jahresber. Pollichia 22-24: 121-124. 1866.