> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 893](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121024) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12506-1) LSID 12506-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74682) QID Q74682 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Froelich, Joseph Aloys von (1766-1841), German physician, "Medizinalrath" and botanist at Ellwangen, Württemberg. **Abbreviated name**: *Froel.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Froel.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; sale announced Flora in 1842. Some material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MW|MW]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 211. - Anon., Flora 25(1) Int. Bl. 12. 14 Feb 1842 (sale). #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 359, 12(3): 335; Barnhart 2: 14; BM 2: 628; GSP 2: 733; DTS 1: 79, 6(4): 140; GR p. 78; MD p. 114; PR 3131. - Anon., Flora 24: 176. 1841. - Stafleu, The great Prodromus 27. 1966. - Familler, Denkschr. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 11: 12. 1913. #### Composite works DC, *Prodr*.: *Crepis*, 7: 164-172. Apr 1838; *Hieracium* 7: 199-240. Apr 1838. #### Eponymy *Froelichia* Moench (1794); *Froelichiella* R. E. Fries (1920). *Note*: *Froelichia* M. Vahl (1797) [^1] is dedicated to Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Frölich (1769-1845), Danish botanist. ### Publications ##### n.1906. De Gentiana dissertatio **Title** *De Gentiana dissertatio* quam summi numinis auspiciis ex decreto gratiosae facultatis medicae in Academia regia Friderico-Alexandrina pro gradu doctoris summisque in utraque medicina honoribus legitime obtinendis publico eruditorum examini subjicit Josephus Aloysius Froelich... d. januar. mdcclxxxxvi. Erlangen (Typis Kunstmannianis) \[1796\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gentiana* **Notes** *Thesis*: Jan 1796 (p. iv: 30 Dec 1795), p. \[i, t.p. of thesis\], \[i-iv\], \[1\]-141, \[142, add.\], 1 col. copper engr. J. Sturm. *Copy*: NY. *Trade ed*.: Erlangen (W. Walther) 1796, publ. Jan-Apr 1796, (p. vi: 30 Dec 1795), \[i-vi\], \[1\]-141, \[142, add.\], 1 col. copper engr. J. Sturm. *Copies*: G, M. – "De Gentiana libellus sistens specierum cognitarum descriptionibus cum observationibus." *Ref*.: BM 2: 628; DTS 1: 79; PR 3131, PR ed. 1: 3420. [^1]: "*Froelichia* Vahl 1797 (Rubiaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Joseph Aloys von Frölich (1766–1841), German physician (“Hofmedizinalrat”), botanist, entomologist, in Ellwangen. Vahl (1797: \[vii\], 13.) mentioned Frölich’s thesis *De Gentiana dissertatio*." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)