> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 83](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265280) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2939307) QID Q2939307 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Berg, \[Friedrich Wilhelm Carl, later Federico Guillermo\] Carlos (1843-1902), Latvian ("Kurland") zoologist (especially entomologist) and botanist, educated in Senten and Tuckum, in business in Mitau and Riga 1859-1871, private teacher id. 1871-1873, curator at the Zoological Museum in Buenos Aires 1873-1890, Dr. phil. 1874, director of the Natural History Museum in Montevideo (Uruguay), from 1892 director of the National Museum in Buenos Aires, travelled briefly in Germany, Kurland and Riga 1897. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Berg* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BA|BA]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 167 (b. 21 Mar/2 Apr 1843, Tuckum, Kurland; d. 19 Jan 1902, Buenos Aires); BL 1: 233; BM 1: 138; CSP 7: 141, 9: 194-195, 13: 459-461; Frank 3(Anh.): 10; IH 2: 69; Jackson p. 376, 509; Morren ed. 2, p. 37, ed. 10, p. 142; Rehder 1: 344, 2: 282, 439; Tucker 1: 75-76; Urban-Berl. p. 329. #### Biofile - Anon., Nat. Nov. 9: 40. 1887 (Dr. ci.); ÖBZ 40: 430. 1890 (to Montevideo), 42: 428. 1892 (dir. Mus. nac. Buenos Aires); Bot. Not. 1903: 34. - Ceballos, E.S., Boll. Inst. Geogr. Argent. 18: 71-82. 1897 (bibl.). - Gallardo, A., Anal. Soc. Cien. Argent. 43: 273-279. 1879, 53: 98-128. 1902; Anal. Mus. nac. Buenos Aires 7: ix-xl. 1902 (detailed biogr., bibl.). - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entomol. London 1977, p. 8. - Osborn, H., A brief history of entomology 179, *pl. 12.* 1952. - Perez Moreau, R.A., Bibl. geobot. Patagonica 110. 1965. - Schweder, G., Korresp.-Bl. Naturf. Ver. Riga 45: 1-6. 1902. - Sheets-Pyenson, S., Cathedrals of Science 38, 43-44. 1988. - Welding, O. et al. (ed. W. Lenz), Deutschbaltisches biographisches Lexikon 1710-1960. 47-48. 1970 (detailed curr. vitae, further biogr. refs.). ### Publications ##### n.20.896. Enumeracion **Title** *Enumeracion* de las *plantas européas* que se hallan como silvestres en la provincia *de Buenos Aires* y en Patagonia... Buenos Aires (Imprenta de Pablo E. Coni,...) 1877. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1877, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-24. *Copies*: G, WU. − Reprinted and to be cited from Anal. Soc. Cien. Argent. 3: 183-206. 1877. *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 26(Bibl.): 43-44. 1879 (rev.). - N.L., Bot. Zeit. 38: 47. 16 Jan 1880.