> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 680](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120811) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/18196-1) LSID 18196-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6215799) QID Q6215799 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Drège, Jean François (Johann Franz) (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Drège, Jean François (Johann Franz) (1794-1881), German plant collector in South Africa (1826-1834). **Abbreviated name**: *Drège* \[standard form in IPNI: *Drège*\] #### Herbarium and types Drège (partly with his brother C. F. Drège) collected more than 200.000 specimens (about 8000 species) in South Africa which were widely distributed to many herbaria; algae e.g. at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] and [[Collection W|W]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 168. - Drège, Linnaea 19: 583-680. 1847, 20: 183-258. 1847. - Koster, Taxon 18: 551. 1969. - Tölken, Ind. herb. austro-afr. 44. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 420; Barnhart 1: 471; BM 1: 478; Bossert p. 107; CSP 2: 341; GR p. 72; Jackson p. 346-347. - Nat. Tidskr. 1: 594. 1837. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1882: 29; J. Bot. 19: 160. 1881. - MacOwan, Trans. S. Air. philos. Soc. 4: xlix-1. 1887. - Fischer-Benzon, Die Heimat, Monatschr. Ver. Nat. Landesk. Schlesw. Hoist. 5: 130. 1895. - Verduyn de Boer, Botanists at the Cape 55-58, 1929 (portr.) - White, The Stapeliae 1: 96. 1937. - Hutchinson, A botanist in South Africa 642. 1946. - De Vos, Suid-Afr. biogr. woordeb. 1: 265-266. 1968 (many refs.) - Hansen, Bot. Tidsskr. 69(2/3): 208. 1974. #### Composite works see E. H. F. Meyer, *Commentariorum de plantis Africae australioris* (1835). #### Eponymy *Dregea* Ecklon & Zeyher (1837, *nom. rej.*; also dedicated to his brother C. F. Drège); *Dregea* E. H. F. Meyer (1838, *nom. cons.*); *Ifdregea* Steudel (1840). *Note*: *Neodregea* C. H. Wright (1909) is based on South-African material of J. L. Drège, further particulars of which are unknown. ### Publications ##### n.1518. Zwei pflanzengeografische Dokumente **Title** *Zwei pflanzengeografische Dokumente* von J. F. Drège, nebst einer Einleitung von Dr. E. Meyer... (Besondere Beigabe zur Flora 1843 Band II) s.l. \[1843-1844\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Zwei pflanzengeogr. Dokum.* **Notes** *Publ*.: In parts, p. 1-16 on 7 Aug 1843, contents and dates of remaining parts not known; consolidated reprint issued Leipzig 1844 (fide PR), p. \[1\]-230, map. *Copies*: BR, G. *Ref*.: BM 1: 478; PR 2401. ##### n.1519. Catalogus plantarum exsiccatarum Africae australioris **Title** *Catalogus plantarum exsiccatarum Africae australioris*, quas emturis offert. 1837-1840. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Afr. austral.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1: 1-11, 20 Mar 1837; 2: 13-32, 20 Mar 1838; 3: 16 p., 24 Apr 1840. – See also Linnaea 19: 583-680, 20: 183-258. *Ref*.: BM 1: 478; Jackson p. 347; PR 2402.