> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 969](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121100) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3237-1) LSID 3237-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60622) QID Q60622 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Goldfuss, Georg August (1782-1848), German professor of zoology at Bonn. **Abbreviated name**: *Goldfuss* \[standard form in IPNI: *Goldfuss*\] #### Collections Bonn University. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 9: 332-333; Barnhart 2: 60; BM 2: 692; CSP 2: 929, 6: 674; Dawson p. 261; GR p. 83-84; LS 10221; Quenstedt p. 167. - Anon., Flora 31: 782. 28 Dec 1848; Bot. Zeit. 6: 824. 24 Nov 1848. #### Eponymy *Goldfussia* C G. D. Nees (1832). ### Publications ##### n.2084. Petrefacta Germaniae **Title** *Petrefacta Germaniae* tam ea, quae in museo universitatis regiae Borussicae Friderici Wilhelmiae Rhenanae servantur quam alia quaecumque in museis Hoeninghusiano Muensteriano aliisque extant, iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Petrefacten Deutschlands und der angränzen Länder, unter Mitwirkung des Herrn Grafen Georg zu Münster herausgegeben von August Goldfuss,... Düsseldorf (Arnz & Comp.) 1826-1844, 3 Theile, Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Petref Germ.* **Notes** |vol. |Lief. |pages |*plates* |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |\[iii\]-xii, \[1\]-76 |i-xxv |1826, Oct-Dec| | |2 |77-164 |xxui-l |1829| | |3 |165-240 |li-lxxi |1831| | |4 |\[i\], 241-252, \[1, err.\] | |1833| |2 |4 |\[1\]-68 |lxxii-xcvi |1833| | |5 |69-140 |xcvii-cxxi |1836| | |6 |141-224 |cxxii-cxlvi |1837| | |7 |225-312, \[i-iii\] |cxlvii-clxv |1840, 30 Dec| |3 |8 |\[i\]-iv, \[1\]-128 |clxvi-cxcix,<br/>front. (= cc), engr. t.p. |1844, Mai-Dec| *Copies*: Teyler, U. – The title of Lieferung 1, 1826 is: *Petrefacta musei universitatis regiae Borussica Rhenanae Bonnensis* nee non Hoeninghusiani crefeldensis iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata. The general title, p. \[i\], of the Erster Theil is as given above, dated 1826-1833. The title of vol. 2 is the same as of vol. 1 exceptfor some small typographical variations; it is dated 1834-1840. There are iv pages of introductory matter, p. iii dated 30 Dec 1840, "Closing the seventh instalment." – The title of vol. 3 is *Petrefacta Germaniae et ea*,... and dated 1841-1844; p. 14 is dated Mai 1841. – The Utrecht copy finishes with plate *cxcviii* and has an engraved extra title page as a frontispiece to the plates i-clxxi which are bound in a separate volume; plates *clxii-cxcviii* are bound with the text for vol. 3. *Ed. 2*: "zweite Auflage" in 3 vols. qu. and fol., Leipzig 1862-1863 (n.v.) The *Petrefacta* deals mainly with animals, but some of the fossils described are now considered to be of vegetable origin. *Ref*.: BM 2: 692; NI (Zool.) 1619. - Giebel, Repertorium zu Goldfuss' Petrefakten Deutschlands, Leipzig 1866 (iv, 122 p., Qu.)