> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 130](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333269) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9049-1) LSID 9049-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102461) QID Q102461 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schenck, Carl Alwin (1868-1955), German (Hessen) forester and dendrologist; Dr. phil. Giessen 1894; to the United States 1895 as forester at the "Biltmore estate"; founder and first director of the Biltmore Forest School and head of the Vanderbilt Forestry reserves in North Carolina 1898-1913; from 1913 active in Germany (from Darmstadt); one of the organisers of the Hoover-plan for post-1918 hungry German; in close contact with the development of forestry in the United States until 1938 and again after 1945. **Abbreviated name**: *C.A. Schenck* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.A.Schenck*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Biol.-Dokum. 15: 7974; Rehder 5: 766; Tucker 1: 628, 3: 270. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. Forests 61: 42. 1955 (obit. not., portr.); Amer. men Sci. ed. 2: 411-412. 1910; Forestry 53: 461. 1955 (obit. not.); New Yorker 27: 11-12. 1951; Who's who Amer. 4: 1567. 1906-1907, 5: 1663. 1908-1909, 6: 1684. 1910-1911, 7: 1841. 1912-1913, 8: 2063. 1914-1915, 9: 2166-2167. 1916-1917, 10: 2391. 1918-1919; Wood preserving News 34: 27-38. 1956. - Butler, O., The Biltmore story, St. Paul 1955, viii, 224 p. - Degener, H.A.L., Wer ist's ed. 4. 1218-1219. 1909. - Heske, F., Z. Weltforstwirtschaft 18: 231. 1955 (obit.). - Schenck, C.A., The Biltmore immortals 2: 19-22. s.d. (portr., curr. vit.); The Biltmore Story. 1955 (autobiographical). - Stephans, T., Z. Weltforstwirtschaft 15(1): 1-3. 1952 (portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 121. 1937, 4: 88, 549. 1938, 6: 239. 1941. - Yates, B.C., Amer. Forests 79: 28-30,60-61. 1973 (on the trail of Dr. S.). - Zentgraf, Mitt. deut. dendr. Ges. 59: 1-3. 1956 (obit., portr., b. 25 Mar 1868, but on p. 7: 25 Mar 1869 sic). ### Publications ##### n.10.538. Fremdländische Wald- und Parkbäume **Title** *Fremdländische Wald- und Parkbäume* ein Buch für alle Forstwirte und Dendrologen ... in drei Bänden. Berlin (Verlag von Paul Parey...) 1939, 3 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fremdländ. Wald- Parkbäume*. **Notes** *1*: 1939 (p. x: Frühjahr 1939), p. \[ii\]-x, \[xi\], \[1\]-615, 3 maps. *2*: 1939 (p vi: Frühjahr 1939), p. \[ii\]-vii, \[1\]-645. *3*: 1939 (p. vi: Frühjahr 1939), p. \[ii\]-x, \[1\]-640. *Copy*: U.