> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 386](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066726) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11783-1) LSID 11783-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2834461) QID Q2834461 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wirtgen, Ferdinand Paul (1848-1924), German (Prussian/Rheinland) pharmacist and botanist; studied pharmacy in Koblenz and St. Johann a.d. Saar (Saarbrücken), state examination Bonn 1873; pharmacist at Eltenheim, Baden 1873-1875, from 1875 again in St. Johann a.d. S., from 1879-1889 as owner of the Frötsch pharmacy; from 1889 in Bonn dedicating himself mainly to botany; son of Philipp Wirtgen. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Wirtg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Wirtg.*\] #### Herbarium and types Main herbarium donated to Ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westfalen (now [[Collection BHU|BHU]]), ferns in [[Collection P|P]] (herb. Bonaparte); Musci to Haussknecht (now [[Collection JE|JE]]). – Further material in [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection FR|FR]] and [[Collection M|M]]. – Duplicate Pteridophytes were still offered for sale in Herbarium 73: 300. 1928. *Exsiccatae*: (1) *Pteridophyta exsiccata*, Lieferung 1-16, 1897-1915 (cont. W. Krieger), sets at [[Collection B|B]] (extant), [[Collection BHU|BHU]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection SI|SI]]. - (2) *Herbarium plantarum criticarum select. hybr. Florae Rhenanae* (edit. nov.), fasc. 1-6, nos. 1-300, ca. 1930-1931, published by H. Andres; collections by F. Wirtgen but also by P.W. Wirtgen. – Sets at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. – For Heinrich Andres (1883-1970), see TL-2/1: 49. *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 628; Barnhart 3: 508 (b. 7 Jan 1848, d. 26 Jan 1924); BFM 326 (index); BJI 2: 193; Bossert p. 439; DTS 6(4): 208; Morren ed. 10, p. 16; Rehder 1: 390; Tucker 1: 750; Urban-Berl. p. 323. #### Biofile - Anon., Allg. bot. Z. 4: 16. 1898 (Pteridophyta exsiccata Lief. 1), 5: 34-35 (id. 3-4), 6: 32. 1900 (id. 5), 7: 40. 1901 (id. 6), 8: 72. 1902 (id. 8): 9: 76. 1903 (id. 8-9), 10: 143. 1904 (id. 10), 11: 60. 1905 (id. 11), 12: 88. 1906 (id. 12), 13: 139. 1907 (id. 13): 15: 18. 1909 (id. 14), 15: 48. 1909 (continued by Voigtländer-Tetzner); Allg. bot. Z. 28/29: 56 (112). 1925 (d.); Herbarium 39: 369. 1915 (Pter. exs. Lief. 16, nos. 1-54. 1915); J. Bot. 10: 159. 1872 (herb. of his father for sale). - Bässier, M., Wiss. Z. Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Math.-Nat. R. 19: 297, 298, 299. 1970 (on herb. in BHU). - Koernicke, M., Verh. naturh. Ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westf. 81: 1-11. 1925 (obit., portr.). - Koernicke, M. & H. Andres, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 42: (131)-(139). 1924 \[1925\] (obit., portr., bibl.). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 182. 1982 (coll.). #### Handwriting Wiss. Z. Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Math.-Nat. R. 19(2-3): 297. 1970. #### Eponymy *Wirtgenia* H. Andres (1914). ### Publications ##### n.18.032. Anweisung **Title** *Anweisung*. Naturhistorischer Verein der Preuss. Rheinlande und Westfalens *Flora von Westdeutschland*... Krefeld (Druck von Kramer & Baum) 1908. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Anweis. Fl. Westdeutschland*. **Notes** *Co-author*: P. Roloff. *Publ*.: 1908, p. \[1\], \[1\]-1 7. *Copy*: B. ##### n.18.033. Die botanische Literatur des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges **Title** *Die botanische Literatur des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges* und der angrenzenden Gebiete 1915-1923. Bonn 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Authorship*: F. Wirtgen senior author, edited and completed by Heinrich Andres (b. 1883) and Otto Koenen. *Publ*.: 1926, cover-t.p., p. \[57\]-76. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ber. Vers. bot. zool. Ver. Rheinl. Westfalen 1925: 57-76. 1926. -A continuation of earlier public cations with the same title in S.B. bot.-zool. Ver. Rheinl.-Westfalen 1912: 1-7, 1913: 1-7, 1914: 1-6. (n.v.).