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### Author
Krauss, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von (1812-1890), German botanist and zoologist; Dr. Phil. Heidelberg 1836; travelled in South Africa 1838-1840; from 1840 in various functions at the natural history museum at Stuttgart.
**Abbreviated name**: *C. Krauss* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Krauss*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection NO|NO]] original botanical material in [[Collection STU|STU]]; specimens of his South African plants are in many herbaria (see IH); [[Collection HBG|HBG]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]] have original algae; bryophytes at [[Collection FI|FI]] and [[Collection LY|LY]]. – We are grateful to Ernst Schüz at Stuttgart for information on Krauss' collections and travelogues.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 308; Barnhart 2: 319; BM 2: 1025; Bossert p. 219; Clokie p. 195; CSP 10: 461, 16: 461; Frank 3(Anh.): 53; GR p. 101 (original inf.); Hortus 3: 1197 ("Krauss, C. F."); IH 2: 386; Jackson p. 349; Kew 3: 313; LS 14387; PR 4870 (ed. 1: 5400); Quenstedt p. 244; RS p. 91.
- Anon., Nat. Nov. 1890: 408.
- Fraas, C. N., Jahresh. Ver. vaterl. Naturk. Württemberg 47: xxxv-xxxviii. 1891 (portr., partial bibl.); \["O.F."\], Leopoldina 28: 78-79. 1892 (brief bibl.).
- Gunn, M., Forum bot., S. Africa, 2(6): 3. 1964 (on a mss. autobiography).
- Lambert, Jahresh. Ver. vaterl. Naturk. Württemberg 117: 83-98. 1962 (mentions plant material at STU p. 92-93).
- MacOwan, P., Trans. S. Afr. philos. Soc. 4: xxx-liii. 1887.
- Metger, Jahresber. Württemb. Ver. Handelsgeogr. 7/8: 127-135. 1890.
- Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 98, 207, 567. 1963.
- Schuz, Jahresh. Ver. vaterl. Naturk. Württemberg 122: 47-62. 1967 (letters by Ludwig to Krauss).
- Spohr, O. H., Ferdinand Krauss: travel journal / Cape to Zululand. Observations by a collector and naturalist 1838-40. Cape Town 1973, 90 p. (n.v., inf. E. Schuüz).
#### Eponymy
*Kraussia* W. H. Harvey (1842); *Kraussia* C. H. Schultz Bip. (1844).
### Publications
##### n.3924. Beitrage zur Flora des Cap- und Natallandes
**Title**
*Beitrage zur Flora des Cap- und Natallandes*... Regensburg \[1844-\] 1846. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Beitr.Fl. Cap.*
**Notes**
*Co-author* (for Compositae): Carl Heinrich Schultz "Bipontinus" (1805-1867).
*Publ*.: 1846, reprint of a series of papers in Flora (see below), p. \[i\], \[1\]-215, *2 pl*. (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: NY.
|pages |Flora |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |
|1-14 |27: \[261\]-274 |7 Mai 1844|
|14-44 |27: \[277\]-307 |18 Mai 1844, 296 as "962", 307 as "703"|
|44-57 |27: 346-359 |7 Jun 1844|
|57-66 |27: \[423\]-432, pl. 1 |7 Jul 1844|
|66-71 |27: \[551\]-556 |28 Aug 1844|
|71-86 |27: \[667\]-682 |21 Oct 1844 by Schultz-Bip.|
|86-96 |27: 692-702 |28 Oct 1844 by Schultz-Bip.|
|97-112 |27: \[767\]-783 |7 Dec 1844 by Schultz-Bip.|
| |27: pl. 7 |21 Dec 1844 plate only!|
|113-129 |27: \[819\]-835 |28 Dec 1844|
|\[129-144\] |28: \[65\]-80 |7 Feb 1845 as "1844"|
|\[144\]-157 |28: \[81\]-93 |14 Feb 1844 as "1844"|
|157-166 |28: \[305\]-314 |28 Mai 1845|
|166-173 |28: \[337\]-344 |14 Jun 1845|
|173-184 |28: \[753\]-764 |28 Dec 1845|
|184-192 |29: \[113\]-121 |28 Feb 1846|
|192-202 |29: \[129\]-138 |7 Mar 1846 cryptogamae|
|202-215 |29: \[209\]-219 |14 Apr 1846 216-219 Consp. ord.|