> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 968](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121099) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3229-1) LSID 3229-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5879) QID Q5879 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (von) (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), German author, poet and "Naturphilosoph". **Abbreviated name**: *Goethe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Goethe*\] #### Collections Unknown; [[Collection G|G]] has at least one Goethe specimen. *Ref*.: Burdet, Candollea 30: 213. 1975. #### Bibliography and biography Complete bibliography of and on all Goethe's publications on the natural sciences: G. Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften, Halle (Saale) 1940, 630 p. - Barnhart 2: 58; BM 2: 690-691; Bossert p. 147; DTS 1: 88-89; LS 10180; PR 3452-3454; Quenstedt p. 166; SO ind. authors 24. - *Later publications on Goethe's botanical activities*: - Moebius, Gesch. Bot. p. 450 \[index\]. 1937. - Schonewille, Bot. Arch. 42: 421-460. 1941. - Schmid, Chamisso als Naturforscher 7, 168. 1942. - Arber, Cbron. bot. 10: 67-124. 1946 ('Goethe's Botany'). - Carus, Goethe 1843, modern edition Merian Genast, Zürich 1948. - Baehni, Gesnerus 6: 110-128. 1949. - Schuepp, Gesnerus 6: 144-157. 1949. - Arber, The natural philosophy of plant form, Cambridge 1950. - Weyland, Sudhoff's Arch. Gesch. Med. 38: 219-233. 1954 (Goethe's Urpflanze). - Meyer, Willdenowia 1: 773-780. 1957. - Spudilova, Zprávy 7: 39-41. 1961 (Czeck). - Meyer, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 80(3): 209-217. 1967 (relations with C. K. and K. Sprengel). - Kanaev, Iz. 1st. Biol. 2: 71-89. 1970 (Russian). - Wells, DSB 5: 442-446. 1972. - Guédès, Histoire et Nature 1: 27-45. 1973. - Mägdefrau, Gesch. Bot. 120-126, 310. 1973. - Winter, Jard. France 7: 13-14. 1973. - Smit, History of the life sciences 937-938, 1049. 1974 (q.v. for many recent refs.) - Lipp, Garden Journal 25(1): 2-9. 1975 (portr.) #### Eponymy *Goethea* C. G. D. Nees (1821). #### Handwriting Candollea 30: 213-214. 1975. ### Publications ##### n.2081. Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären **Title** *Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären*. Carl Wilhelm Ettinger. Gotha 1790. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Vers. Metamorph. Pfl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb-Jun 1790, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-86. *Copy*: U. – The book was reprinted with the same imprint sometime between 1810-1850. Schmid gives details on how to distinguish between the true and the false first edition and provides a critical bibliography of all later editions and translations as well as of the rich literature on Goethe's Metamorphosenlehre. See Sotheby (1975) for repr. t.p.'s. *Ref*.: PR 3452. - Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften 8-9. 1940. - Sotheby, Stiftung Botanik, A-G, London 1975.