> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 271](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260259) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/18400-1) LSID 18400-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76549) QID Q76549 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried (1795-1876), German botanist, zoologist, physician, naturalist and palaeobotanist, born 19 Apr 1795 at Delitzsch, Sachsen, followed school at Schulpforta, studied at Leipzig theology and philology 1815, and later medicine, promotion in 1818, became member of Leopoldina that same year, travelled a.o. with Hemprich along the Red Sea 1820-1925 and with von Humboldt to Siberia 1829, became extraordinary professor in Berlin 1826, professor in 1839, considered to be the founder of bacteriology and protozoology, died 27 Jun 1876 at Berlin. **Abbreviated name**: *Ehrenb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ehrenb.*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 727 and IH 2: 179. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 5: 701-711; AG 2(1): 564, 3: 431; Ainsworth, p. 341 (index); Andrews p. 257; Barnhart 1: 499; BM 2: 514-516, 6: 295; Bossert p. 113; Christiansen p. 313; CSP 2: 458-467, 6: 647, 7: 603-604, 9: 781-782, 12: 215; De Toni 1: xxxix-xliv, 2: xxxviii-xlvii; DTS 1: 60-61; Frank 3(Anh.): 27; GR p. 10; GR cat. p. 62; Hortus 3: 1192; IH 2: 179; Jackson p. 543 (index); Kew 2: 174; Lasègue p. 567 (index); LS 7655-7667; Maiwald p. 277 (index); ME 3: 570; Moebius p. 449 (index); MW p. 105; NAF 1(1): 158. 1949, 7(15): 1061. 1940, 9(6): 434. 1916, 28 B(2): 328. 1945, ser. 2(6): 62. 1972; NI nr. 582, suppl. p. 32; PR 2633-2640, ed. 1: 2921-2926; Quenstedt p. 126, 480; Rehder 5(index): 252; Saccardo 1: 69, 2: 44; SBC p. 119; Stevenson p. 1241, TL-2/1: 727-730, and see indexes ; Tucker 1: 225, 226; Urban-Berl. p. 273, 275, 286, 298, 343; Zander ed. 10, p. 655, ed. 11, p. 746. #### Biofile - Agassiz, J.L.R., Tributes from the United States of America to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg on his 50. anniversary as doctor of medicine, November 5. 1868, 12 p. 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Praesidem epistola. Cum tabulis vi aeneis... Bonnae... 1821. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1821, p. \[1\]-60, *pl. 1-6* (col.). *Copy*: B; IDC B-5097/2. – Reprinted and to be cited from Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 10: 157-222. 1821. *Ref*.: Zuchold, E.A., Jahresb. nat. Ver. Halle 5: 15. 1853. ##### n.32.521. Syzygites **Title** *Syzygites* eine neue Schimmelgattung nebst Beobachtungen über sichtbare Bewegung in Schimmeln mit Abbildungen... 1829. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Syzygites*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1829, p. \[1\]-13, *pl. 2-3* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin Verh. 1: 98-109. 1820 \[i.e. 1829\]. – For *Syzygites* (Mucoraceae) see ING 3: 1717. 1979. ##### n.32.522. Pollen **Title** Über das *Pollen* der *Asclepiadeen*. Ein Beitrag zur Auflösung der Anomalieen in der Pflanzen-Befruchtung... Berlin (Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1831. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pollen Asclep.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1831, p. \[1\]-21, *pl. 1-2* (col. liths.). *Copies*: BKL, BM, HH. ##### n.32.523. Das **Title** *Das* unsichtbar wirkende *organische Leben*. Eine Vorlesung.... Im Vereine für wissenschaftliche Vorträge gehalten zu Berlin am 12 Feb 1842.... \[Leipzig (Leopold Voss) 1842. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Organ. Leben*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1842 (read at Berlin 12 Feb 1842), cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[1\]-53, \[54, printer's mark\], *1 pl. Copy*: B.