> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 36](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265233) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/15866-1) LSID 15866-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215979) QID Q215979 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Beckmann, Johann (1739-1811), German (Hoya, Hannover) agricultural scientist and technologist; educated at the Gymnasium of Stade 1754-1759; studied theology, natural sciences and administration at the University of Göttingen 1759-1762; travelled in Brunswick and Holland 1762-1763; teacher at the German Gymnasium in St. Petersburg 1763-1765, travelled in Sweden and Denmark 1765-1766; extraordinary professor at Göttingen 1766-1770, id. ordinary professor 1770-1811. **Abbreviated name**: *Beckm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Beckm.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 2: 238-239; AG 2(1): 88; Backer p. 60; Barnhart 1: 151 (b. 4 Jun 1739, Hoya, d. 3 Feb 1811, Göttingen); BM 1: 120, 121; Dryander 3: \[see index, numerous refs.\]; DSB 1: 554-555 (major source, author: Friedrich Klemm); GR p. 61; Hortus 3: 1188; Jackson p. 8; KR p. 68 (details on his "Schwedische Reise" ed. by Th.M. Fries); LS 2140a; Moebius p. 388; NAF 7(15): 1051; NDB 1: 727-728; PR 548, ed. 1: 640-643; Quenstedt p. 29; Ratzeburg p. 35; Rehder 5(index): 62; Tucker 1: 69. #### Biofile - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 391. 1877. - Fries, Th.M. ed., Schwedische Reise in den Jahren 1765-1766. Tagebuch \[of J. Beckmann\] mit Einleitungen und Anmerkungen, Uppsala 1911 (see e.g. KR p. 68). - Haller, A. von, Bibl. bot. 2: 351-446. 1772. - Hulth, J.M. Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 185-187. 1922, 2(1): 251-269. 1916. - Hulth, J.M. and A.H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 187, 188. 1943. - Lack, H.W. and O. v. Sydow, Willdemowia 13: 413. 1983 (corr. with Bergius and Hermann at UPS-UB). - Wagenitz, G., Göttinger Biologen 1737-1945. 22. 1988. - Wiesner, Jul., Natur, Geist, Technik,... Leipzig 1910, vii, 428 p. (chapter iv on the relations between B. and Linnaeus). #### Composite works See C. Linnaeus, *Syst. nat. epitom.* 1772, TL-2/4843; J. Beckmann compiler; see KR p. 68. #### Eponymy *Beckmannia* Host 1805 (see ING 1: 187. 1979). ### Publications ##### n.20.681. Lexicon botanicorum **Title** Joannis Beckmanni... *Lexicon botanicorum*, exhibens etymologiam, orthographiam et prosodiam nominum botanicorum. Gottingae \[Göttingen\] (apud Joann. Frider. Röwer\] 1801. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Lexik. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul-Dec 1801 (p. viii: 24 Jun 1801), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-230, \[231-232, corr.\]. *Copies*: G, NY.