> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 180](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266487) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1239-1) LSID 1239-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55021352) QID Q55021352 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Buch, Christian Leopold von, Freiherr von Gelmersdorf etc.|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Buch, Christian Leopold von (1774-1853), German geologist, palaeontologist and mineralogist of independent means, landed proprietor, studied at the Bergakademie Freiburg and at universities in Halle and Göttingen, travelled widely in Europe and the Canary Islands, Prussian Kammerrath 1806, extraordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin 1806, full member 1808, corresponding member of the Institut de France, Foreign member of the Linnean Society and of the Royal Society \[London\]. **Abbreviated name**: *Buch* \[standard form in IPNI: *Buch*\] #### Collections see TL-2/1: 387; some herbarium material at B, BASSA. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 3: 464-475; Barnhart 1: 273; BM 1: 273-274; CSP 1: 687-691, 6: 610, 7: 289, 12: 129; DSB 2: 552-557 (W. Nieuwenkamp) q.v.!; DTS 1: 38-39, 6(4): 7; GR p. 67; GR, cat. p. 61; IF p. 685; IH 2: 104; Kew 1: 407; KR p. 109; Lasègue p. 565 (index); MD p. 71-73; NDB 2: 697; PR 1307-1308, ed. 1: 1453-1455; Quenstedt p. 65; Ratzeburg p. 89-92; Rehder 5(index): 130; TL-2/1: 387-388 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 120; Urban-Berl. p. 333. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 11: 197-198. 1853 (died 4 Mar 1853 in Berlin); ÖBW 3: 108. 1853 (obit. note); Bonplandia 2: 265. 1854 (member Leopoldina, cogn. "Lucius"); Proc. Linn. Soc. 2: 241-243. 1855 (obit.). - Boué, Almanach k. Akad. Wien 3: 179-194. 1853 (bibl.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 240.20. 1980. - Buch, C.L. von, Edinb. New Philos. J. 1: 380-384. 1826, 2: 73-86. 1826-1827 ("Observations made during a visit to Madeira and a residence in the Canary Islands"). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 400. 1880. - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. Souvenirs 375, 454. 1862. - Carnall, Z. deut. geol. Ges. 5: 248-263. 1853. - Dechen, H. von, Verh. naturk. Ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westf. 10: 241-265. 1853; 31(corr.): 41-59. 1874; Nova Acta Leopoldina 24(2): ci-cxxxv. 1854. - Engelmann, W., Bibl. hist. nat. 660 (index). 1846 (bibl.). - Flourens, M.J.P., Éloges hist. 1: 343-409. 1856; Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1882: 358-372 (bibl.). - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 511. 1878. - Geinitz, H.B., Gedächtnissrede auf L. von Buch. Gehalten... 1853, p. vi, 32. Dresden 1853. - Giebel, C.G., Biogr. of C.L. v. Buch. Berlin 1857. - Günther, Geisteshelden 29: 185-271. 1900 (portr., bibl.). - Haidinger, W., Jb. geol. Reichsanstalt Wien 4: 207-220. 1853. - Hooykaas, R., The principle of uniformity in geology, biology and theology, ed. 2. Leiden 1963. - Lurie, E., Louis Agassiz 436 (index). 1960. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 95, 100, 127, 246, 309. 1973. - Margadant, W.D., Early bryol. lit. 71. 1968 (curr. vit., detailed treatment of *Phys. Beschr. Canar. Ins.*). - Martius, C.F.P. von, Denkrede auf... München 1853. - Müller, R.H.W. and R. Zaunick, Friedr. Traug. Kützing 276. 1960. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 69. 1966. - Ratzeburg, J.T.C., Forstwiss. Schriftst. Lexikon 89-92. 1874. - Schmid, G., Chamisso als Naturforscher 166. 1942. - Scholz, H., ed., Englera 7: 88. 1987. - Sherborn, C.D., Where is the... collection 27. 1940. - Ward, L.F., Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 5: 400. 1885. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 121. 1903, 3(3): 121. 1905 (on portr.). - Zaunick, R., Der Geologe 34: 669-674. 1924 (letters); Dresdner Anzeiger 194, no. 140, p. 4. 24 Apr 1924. #### Composite works - (1) *Plantarum Canariensium*, in *Novae physicae berolinenses* (TL-2/6680) by C.G.D. Nees, p. 111-116, *pl. 22-26* (Pl. canar.) 1820. – See also TL-2/863 (authorship: Nees). #### Notes - (1) *L. von Buch's gesammelte Schriften.* Herausgegeben von J. Ewald, J. Roth und H. Eck (and afterwards W. Dames), 4 vols. 1867-1885. Oct. - (2) C.L. von Buch, *Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland*, Berlin 1810. Oct., 2 vols., \[1:\] (1), x, 486, 2 maps, \[2:\] (1), 406, (2), 3 maps. Berlin (bei G.C. Nauck) 1810, see KR p. 109. - (3) \[French version of (2)\], C.L. von Buch, *Voyage en Norvège et en Laponie*, fait dans les années 1806, 1807, 1808 par M. Léopold de Buch, traduit de l'allemand, par J.B.B. Eyriés ... Paris (Gide fils) 1816, 2 vols., \[1:\] xxiv, 472, (2) 2 maps, \[2:\] (4), 455. - (4) *Addition and correction to TL-2/863*: The french translation mentioned only concerns the botanical part and is titled: (part 1) "*Coup d'oeil sur la Flore des îles Canaries*", paged \[1\]-28, (part 2) "*Catalogue des plantes spontanées qui ont été jusqu'ici trouvées dans les îles Canaries*", paged 29-56. *Copy*: U. ### Publications ##### n.23.447. Blattnerven **Title** Über *Blattnerven* und ihre Vertheilung... Berlin (gedruckt in der Druckerei der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1852. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: early 1852 (volume contains reports up to 19 Jan 1852), p. \[i\], \[1\]-8, *1 pl*. (uncol.). *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ber. Bekanntmach. Verh. k. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin 1852: 42-49. – Summary in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2. 11: 418-420. 1853.