> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 234](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333373) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12829-1) LSID 12829-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21608101) QID Q21608101 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schmid, \[Ludwig\] Bernhard \[Ehregott\] (1788-1857), German (Thüringian) missionary and botanical explorer; nephew of J.K. Zenker (Jena); studied theology at Jena 1807-1810; private teacher at Aachen, Hamburg and Paris 1810-1817; to Madras 1817-1819; in the Nilgiri Hills 1819-1837. **Abbreviated name**: *B. Schmid* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.B.E.Schmid*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection JE|JE]]; other material at [[Collection B|B]] (partially extant), [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MW|MW]] (700), [[Collection W|W]] ("Plantae nilagiricae"). – *Letters* to D.F.L. von Schlechtendal at [[Collection HAL|HAL]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 8; Backer p. 518; Barnhart 3: 231 (b. 20 Mar 1788); BM 4: 1843; Desmond p. 545; PR 10468, ed. 1: 11426; TL-1/1445; Urban-Berl. p. 313, 322. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot, Zeit. 5: 264. 1847 (plants sent to Zenker at Jena; used by him for *Pl. indic.*, material still at Jena). - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 18, 42, 53, 54, 55, 71, 89, 109. 1965. - Chemnitius, F., Die Botaniker an der Universität Jena 16-17. 1930 (donated herbarium to JE). - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 58 (942 specimens "Herb." at K). - Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural. Moscou 61: 67. 1886 (biogr. details; 600 sp. at MW). - Stewart, R.R., Taxon 31(1): 58. 1982. #### Composite works *A list of plants gathered on the Neilgherries*, particularly in the environs of Ootacamund, *in* R. Baikie, *Observations on the Neilgherries*, Calcutta 1834, p. 129-136. #### Eponymy *Schmidia* R. Wight (1852). ### Publications ##### n.10.846. Plantae indicae **Title** *Plantae indicae*, quas in montibus Coimbaturicis coeruleis, Nilagiri s. Neilgherries dictis, collegit Bernardus Schmid. Illustravit Dr. Jonathan Carolus Zenker,... Jena hkjh(August Schmid), Paris (Treuttel et Würtz...) 1835, 2 decades. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. ind.* **Notes** *Author of text*: Jonathan Carl Zenker (1799-1837). *1*: 1835 (p. 4 cover: Feb 1835), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-10, *pl. 1-10* (col. copp.). *2*: 1835, cover-t.p., p. \[11\]-22, *pl. 11-20* (id.). *Copy*: G. – Book number 10.845 has not been used.