> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 840](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120971) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2754-1) LSID 2754-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57802) QID Q57802 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fischer von Waldheim, \[Johann\] Gotthelf \[Friedrich\] (1771-1853), German palaeobiologist active in Russia, founder (1805) of the Société imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Fisch. v. Waldh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Fisch.Waldh.*\] #### Collections Many of his collections were destroyed in the great fire of Moscow, 1812. His later entomological collections went to the Zoological Museum of the Moscow University, other material in idem, Leningrad. His library went, in part, to the Zoological Museum at Dresden. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 7: 84-85; Andrews p. 263; Barnhart 1: 544; BM 2: 577-579; Bossert p. 126; CSP 2: 622-626, 6: 656; Dawson p. 327; Jackson p. 175, 188; NDB; Quenstedt p. 140. - Engelmann, Bibl. hist. nat. 675 \[index\]. 1846. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 11: 855-856. 1853. - Anon., Flora 37: 16. 1854. - Anon., Bonplandia 2: 266. 1854. - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 20: 393-394. 1855. - Hagen, Bibl. entomol. 1: 235-237. 1862. - Essig, A history of Entomology 631-632. 1931. - Zitkov, Moskovskoe obščestvo ispytatelej prirody, Moskva 1940 (main biogr.) - Schmid, Chamisso als Naturforscher 77, 346, 386. 1942. - Büttner, Fischer von Waldheim. 1956 (bibl.) - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 144-145. 1969. #### Eponymy *Fischera* O. Swartz (1817); *Waldheimia* Karelin & Kirilov (1842).