> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 229](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265426) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58588) QID Q58588 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840), German (Gotha born) biologist, physician and anthropologist, studied medicine at the universities of Jena and Göttingen, Dr. med. Göttingen 1775, curator of the natural history collection and extraordinary professor at Göttingen 1776, full professor of medicine 1778, professor primarius Faculty of Medicine 1816. **Abbreviated name**: *Blumenbach* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 2: 748-751; Backer p. 70-71; Barnhart 1: 204; BM 1: 179; Dawson p. 110-118 (corr. Banks); Dryander 3: 347; DSB 2: 203.205; Frank 3(Anh.): 11; Hegi 5(1): 662; Jackson p. 38; NDB 2: 329-330; Quenstedt p. 44 (q.v. for further refs.). #### Biofile - Barnhart, J.H., Bartonia 16: 21-22. 1935 (in corresp. with Schweinitz). - Breure, A.S.H. and J.G. de Bruyn, eds., Leven en werken van J.G.S. van Breda 62 e.v., 404. 1979. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 73.2. 1980. - Carpenter, M.H., Bibl. biogr. entomologists, Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 10. 1945 (further refs.). - Flourens, P., Éloges hist. 1: 197-228. 1856. - Freund, H. and A. Berg, Gesch. Mikroskopie 1: 89. 1963. - Glass, B. et al., Forerunners of Darwin 83, 178. 1968. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 164, 188. 1967. - Lütjeharms, W.J., Gesch. Mykol. 51, 123. 1936. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 95. 1973. - Marx, K.F.H., Zum Andenken an Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Göttingen 53 p., 1840 (see also Wagenitz 1988), also in Dutch, Alg. Konst.- Letterbode 1841(2): 195-198, 210-214, 227-232. - Pütter, J.S., Versuch acad. Gelehrt.-Gesch. Göttingen 2: 148-149. 1788, 3: 303-317. 1820, 4: 421-423. 1838. - Ratzeburg, J.T.C., Forstwiss. Schriftst.-Lex. 54-55. 1872. - Schmid, G., Goethe und die Naturwiss. nos. 257-259, 1596-1597, 1644. 1960. - Seeland, H., Mitt. Herm. Roemer-Mus. Hildesheim 40: 19, 25. 1936. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 55. 1981 (2 letters at Hunt Inst.). - Wagenitz, G., Göttinger Biologen 1737-1945: 29-30. 1988 (major source, further refs., b. Gotha 11 Mai 1752, d. Göttingen 22 Jan 1840; q.v. for further biogr. refs.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 119. 1905 (on portr.). - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 178, 185, 190, 191, 192, 219, 285. 1899. ### Publications ##### n.21.609. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte **Title** *Handbuch der Naturgeschichte*... Göttingen (bey Johann Christian Dieterich) 1779. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Handb. Naturgesch.* **Notes** *Publ*.: *Ed. 1*: 1779-1780. *Part 1*: 1779, p. \[i-xiv\], \[1\]-448 (only botany). *Part 2*: 1780, p. \[i-ii\], 449-559, \[560-586, index\]. − Part 2 has botany and mineralogy *Copy*: GOET(NSUB), thanks to G. Wagenitz. *Ed. 2*: 1782, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-561, \[1-27 indexes\], *3 pl. Copy*: GOET(NSUB). *Ed. 3*: 1788, p. \[i-iii\], iv-xvi, \[1\]-715, *pl. 1-3.* *Copies*: GOET(NSUB), U. *Ed. 4*: 1791, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-704, \[1-33\], *2 pl*. *Ed. 5*: 1797 (pref. 20 Mar 1797), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-714, \[1-32\], *2 pl. Ed. 6*: 1799 (pref. 10 Mar 1799), p. \[i\]-xvi, *pl. 1-2*, \[1\]-708, \[1-32\]. *Copies*: MO, U. − Göttingen (bey Johann Christian Dieterich) 1799. Oct. *Ed. 7*: 1803, p. \[i\]-xvi, *pl. 1-2*, \[1\]-734. *Ed. 8*: 1807, p. \[i\]-xiv, *pl. 1-2*, \[1\]-743, \[1-41\]. *Ed. 10*: 1821, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-813, \[1\], *pl. 1-2.* *Ed. 11*: 1825, p. \[i\*, t.p.\], \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-668, *pl. 1-2.* *Copy*: U. *Ed. 12*: 1830, p. \[i\*, h.t.\], \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-668, *pl. 1-2.* *Copy*: U. − Botany on p. 421-453. *Dutch edition*: 1802, p. \[i, h.t.\]-xxiv, *pl. 1-2* (uncol. copp. engr.), \[1\]-1062. *Copy*: U. − Botany on p. 686-721. "*Hand-Boek* der *natuurlijke historie* of natuur-geschiedenis,... uit het hoogduitsch vertaald, vermeerderd en ten dienste vooral der Nederlanders ingericht, door J.A. Bennet en G. van Olivier... Leyden (bij L. Herdingh) 1802. Oct. (*Handb. nat. hist.*).