> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 399](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258877) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3397-1) LSID 3397-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76351) QID Q76351 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolph|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf \[Rudolph\] (1814-1879), German botanist (plant geographer and systematist), born 17 Apr 1814 in Hannover, studied medicine and botany in Berlin and Göttingen 1832-1835, M.D. 1836 Göttingen, traveled through the Balkan Penins. and n.w. Asia Minor 1839-1840, prof. extraord. of botany, medical faculty, Göttingen 1841, visited Norway 1842, full prof. 1847-1875 and from 1875-1879 also dir. of Göttingen Botanical Garden, Dr. h.c. 1875, privy government councilor (Geheimer Regierungsrath), Göttingen Univ. 1874-1875, died 9 Mai 1879 in Göttingen. **Abbreviated name**: *Griseb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Griseb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GOET|GOET]], but since he also consulted borrowed material, some of his types are elsewhere (e.g. [[Collection C|C]] and [[Collection K|K]], which holds many of the types of the *Fl. Brit. W.I.*). Other collections in [[Collection B|B]] (lost?), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MA|MA]], [[Collection MO|MO]]. – Letters at [[Collection GOET|GOET]] (selected copies at [[Collection GH|GH]]), also some corr. with C. Darwin. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 49: 551-554; AG 1: 344, 5(l): 453, 5(2): 280, 12(3): 648; APN p. 243; Backer p. 244, 651; Baillon 2: 745; Barnhart 2: 89; Biol.-Dokum. 7: 86.163-86.164; BL 1: 224, 225, 228, 234, 298; BM 2: 737-738; BN p. 175; Bossert p. 153; Collander hist. p. 155 (index); CSP 3: 24-25, 6: 678, 7: 842, l0: 64, 12: 293; Desmond ed. 2: 301; DSB 5: 546-547; DTS 1: 95-96; Ewan Pap. p. 84; Frank 3(Anh.): 38; Frodin ed. 2: 1028 (index); Futak-Domin p. 223; Herder p. 453 (index); Hortus 3: 1194; IF p. 700; IF suppl. 4: 354; IH 1 (ed. 6): 359, 2: 241; Jackson p. 553-554 (index); Kanitz nr. 223; Kelly p. 94; Kew 2: 513-514; Kew List p. 28 (as "Heinrich Rudolf August"); Langman p. 337; Lasègue p. 569 (index); Lenley p. 189; LS 10.424, 33.822; Mägdefrau p. 311 (index); ME 2: 54, 55; Moebius p. 450 (index); Morren ed. 2: 7; MW p. 144; NAF 28B(2): 333, ser. 2(7): 40; NDB 7: 96-97 (as "Heinrich August Rudolf"); Portr. 3: 508; PR ed. 1: 3902-3908, ed. 2: 3588-3601, 10.570; Rehder 5(index): 344, 949; RS p. 85; Strid p. 141, ed. 2: 194; TL-1: 183-185; TL-2/1: 1007-1011 (as "Rudolph"), indices 2/3, 2/4 (references p.p. to 2/3!), 2/5, 2/7, Suppl. 5; Tucker 1: 303, 3: 127; Urban-Berl. p. 351; Wagenitz p. 66; Zander ed. 10: 665, ed. 11: 757, ed. 17: 950. #### Biofile - Anon., \[death notice\]: 9 Mai 1879; Flora 62: 240. 1879; J. Bot. 17: 191. 1879; Bol. Acad. Nac. Ci. 4: i-iv. 1881 (d. "7 Mai"). - Ascherson, P., 1860. Fl. Prov. Brandenburg 1: 5. - Balfour, T.A.G., 1881. Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 14: 13-20. - Barbosa, L.A. Grandvaux, 1962. *In*, A. Fernandes, Compt. Rend. Réun. Plén. Assoc. pour Étude Taxon. Fl. Afrique Trop. 4: 81, 86. - Burdet, H.M., 1975. Candollea 30: 229-230. (handwr.) - Burdet, H.M., 1979. Auxilium ad botanicorum graphicem: \[sub Grisebach\]. (handwr.) - B\[urkart\], A., 1839. Darwiniana 3: 89-91. (portr.) - Candolle, A.L., 1880. Phytographie: 416. - Christensen, C., 1926. Danske Bot. Hist. 2: 667. (index) - Drude, O., 1879. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 37: 531-534. (bibl.) - Drude, O., 1879. Petermann's Mitth. Justus Perthes' Georgr. Anst. 25: 269-271. - Eichler, A.W., 1879. Verh. Bot. Vereins Brandenburg 21(S.B.): 83. - Ellenberg, H., 1980 \[i.e. 1981\]. Georgia Augusta 1980(5): 15-20. - Gray, J.L. (ed.), 1893. Letters of Asa Gray 2: 833. (index) - Grisebach, E., 1888. *In*, A. Grisebach, Ges. Abh. u. kl. Schr. Pflanzengeogr.: 605-628. \[Reproduced in Stearn, W.S., 1965. J. Arnold Arbor. 46: 243-285. (portr.)\] (main bibl.) - Grossmann, A., 1974. Natur & Mus. 104: 174-182. (portr.) - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond (eds.), 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 86. - Hertel, H. & A. Schreiber, 1988. Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 26: 319. - Howard, R.A., 1988. Charles Wright in Cuba, 1856-1867, Alexandria, Virginia (Chadwyck-Healey): viii, 90 p., 4 microfiche \[in pocket\]. (portr.) - Hunziker, A.T., 1960. Bol. Acad. Nac. Ci. (Córdoba) 41: 283-421. \[reprinted in Trab. Mus. Bot. (Cordoba) 2(10): 283-421. 1960\] \[cat. Grisebach types at CORD\] - Jones, G.N., 1966. An annotated bibl. Mexican ferns: 4, 78-79, 98. - König, C., 1884. *In*, G. Krebs, Humboldt 3: 398-404. - Mägdefrau, K., 1973. Gesch. Bot.: 104, 311. - Mill, S.W. et al., 1988. Indexed bibl. flowering pl. Hawai'i: 63. (bibl.) - Morren, Éd., 1881. A la mémorie de Auguste Grisebach. 1814-1879: p. \[1\]-18. (bibl., portr.) \[reprinted from Belgique Hort. 31: 5-22\] \[transl. of Reinke 1879 with Griseb. portr. as frontisp.\] - Regel, E., 1879. Gartenflora 28: 221. - Reinke, J., 1879. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 37: 521-534. (bibl. by Drude) - Reinke, J., 1880. Leopoldina 16: 35-38, 52-56. (bibl.) - Reinke, J., 1881. Belgique Hort. 31: 5-22. (portr.) - Stafleu, F.A., 1966. The great Prodromus: 27. - Stearn, W.S., 1965. J. Arnold Arbor. 46: 243-285. \[re. *Fl. Brit. W.I.*\] - Strid, A., 2000. Preslia 72(2-4): 241-321. (portr.) \[new taxa in "Spicilegium Florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae" (1843-1846)\] - Urban, I., 1898. Symb. Antill. 1: 56-63. - Urban, I., 1906. *In*, C. Martius, Fl. Bras. 1(1): 174-175. - Wagenitz, G., 1980 \[i.e. 1981\]. Georgia Augusta 1980(5): 5-14. (portr.) - Wittrock, V.B., 1903. Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 128; 1905. Id., 3(3): 136, *pl. 71.* (portr.) #### Eponymy (additional) *Grisebachia* Drude & H. Wendl. (1875); *Grisebachianthus* R.M. King & H. Rob. (1975); *Grisebachiella* Lorentz (1880). #### Note - (1) In TL-2/1 (nr. 2181), Part 2 of *Fl. Brit. W.I.* is misdated. It was issued Jun 1860, not Jun 1859. - (2) The following titles are now available in microform or in electronic format: (a) *Observ. Gent.*... 1836 (TL-2/1, nr. 2173): *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 2 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "2117G4-2118C3"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). (b) *Gen. sp. Gent.*... 1839 (TL-2/1, nr. 2174): *Microfiche*: (1) Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 4 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "8268A1-8271F6"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). - (2) Zug, Switzerland (Inter-Documentation Co.), 1986?, 6 microfiches, 9×12 cm. *Copy*: HH (n.v.). (c) *Grundr. syst. Bot.*... 1854 (TL-2/1, nr. 2177): *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 3 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "2118C7-2120B7"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). (d) *Syst. Bemerkungen*... 1854 (TL-2/1, nr. 2178): *Microfiche*: Zug, Switzerland (Inter-Documentation Co.), 1985, 1 microfiche, (Taxonomic literature, 2178). *Copy*: (n.v.). (e) *Syst. Veg. Karaiben*... 1857 (TL-2/1, nr. 2179): *Microfilm*: Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2001, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). (f) *Fl. Brit. W.I.*... \[1859-\]1864 (TL-2/1, nr. 2181): *Microfiche*: \[Louisville, Kentucky\] (Lost Cause Press) \[1971\]. *Copy*: (n.v.). *Microfilm*: - (1) Ann Arbor, Michigan (University Microfilms International), \[19–\], 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). - (2) Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom (EP Group of Companies, Microform Division), \[19–\], 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Electronic version*: \[St. Louis (Missouri Botanical Garden)\]: Botanicus. (g) *Pl. wright.*... 1860-1862 (TL-2/1, nr. 2182): *Microfilm*: Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2001, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). *Electronic version*: \[St. Louis (Missouri Botanical Garden)\]: Botanicus. (h) *Geogr. Verbr. Pfl. Westind.*... 1865 (TL-2/1, nr. 2183): *Microfilm*: Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2000, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). (i) *Cat. pl. Cub.*... 1866 (TL-2/1, nr. 2184): *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 6 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "8271G3-8275A3"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). *Electronic version*: \[St. Louis (Missouri Botanical Garden)\]: Botanicus. (j) *Veg. Erde*... 1872 (TL-2/1, nr. 2185): \[Ed. 1, 1872\]: *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 15 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "2120C4-2134A4"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Univ. Libraries), 1990, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). \[Ed. 2, 1884\]: *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 14 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "2134B2-2147C5"). *Copy*: MO (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Univ. Libraries), 1990, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). (k) *Pl. lorentz.*... 1874 (TL-2/1, nr. 2186): *Microfiche*: (1) Zug, Switzerland (Inter-Documentation Co.), 1985, 3 microfiches (Taxonomic literature, 2186). *Copy*: US. (2) Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom (EP Group of Companies, Microform Division), \[19–\]. *Copy*: (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Washington, D.C. (U.S. Library of Congress), \[19–\], 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: LC (n.v.). (l) *Symb. fl. argent.*... 1874 (TL-2/1, nr. 2187): *Microfiche*: (1) Zug, Switzerland (Inter-Documentation Co.), \[1985?\], 4 microfiches (Taxonomic literature, 2187). *Copy*: US. (2) Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom (EP Group of Companies, Microform Division), \[19–\]. *Copy*: (n.v.). #### Composite works - (1) Editor of the serial bibliography *Bericht über die Leistungen in der Pflanzengeographie*... 15 pts. (1840-1853), see Stearn (1965: 251-252) for details. – *Note*: (a) English translations for the years 1842-1845 are to be found in the Ray Society reports on botany for 1846 and 1849. (b) The serial was continued as *Geographisches Jahrbuch*. - (2) Gentianaceae *in* F.J.F. Meyen, *Observ. bot.*... 1843 (TL-2/3, nr. 5895). - (3) With J. Reinke, *Syst. Pilze*... 1873 (TL-2/3, nr. 7034), a German transl. of A.S. Örsted, *Løvsporepl*.... 1867 (TL-2/3, nr. 7029) that was published originally in Danish. - (4) "Pflanzengeographie" *in* G.B. von Neumayer, *Anl. wiss. Beobacht. Reisen*... 1875 (TL-2/3, nr. 6761). - (5) Malpighiaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Smilacaceae *in* E. Warming, *Symbolae*... part 21, 1876 (TL-2/7, nr. 16.709). ### Publications ##### n.37.244. Malpighiacearum brasiliensium centuriam **Title** *Malpighiacearum brasiliensium centuriam* recenset Aug. Grisebach... \[Halle (s.n.) 1839\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1839, p. \[155\]-259. *Copies*: K, NY (detached). – Reprinted (detached?) and to be cited from Linnaea 13(2): 155-259. 1839. ##### n.37.245. Beobachtungen **Title** *Beobachtungen* über das *Wachsthum* der *Vegetationsorgane* in *Bezug* auf *Systematik*... \[Reprinted from Arch. Naturgesch.\] 1843\[-1846\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*Erster Abschnitt*\]: 1843, Über das Wachsthum der Stengelglieder..., p. \[267\]-292. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from Arch. Naturgesch. 9: 267-292. 1843. \[*Zweiter Abschnitt*\]: 1844, Über das Wachsthum der Blätter..., p. 134-155, *pl. 4* (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: G. – Id. 10: 134-155, *pl. 4.* 1844. \[*Dritter Abschnitt*\]: 1846, Vom Phyllostrom..., p. 1-33. *Copy*: G. – Id. 12: 1-33. 1846. \[*Nachtr*.\]: 1846, Nachtrag zu den Beobachtungen über das Wachsthum der Blätter..., p. 345-347, *pl. 11* (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: G. – Id. 12: 345-347, *pl. 11.* 1846. ##### n.37.246. Vegetationslinien **Title** Ueber die *Vegetationslinien* des *nordwestlichen Deutschlands*. Ein Beitrag zur Geographie der Pflanzen... Göttingen (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht) 1847. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1847 (p. 104 stamped 2 Apr 1852), cover-t.p., \[1\]-104. *Copies*: BM, G, HH (n.v.), K, MO (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US, WU. – Reprinted and to be cited from Göttinger Studien, p. 461-562. 1847. – Republished in *Gesamm. Abh.*... p. 136-216. 1880 (see nr. 37.251 below). ##### n.37.247. Gramina Rossica **Title** *Gramina Rossica*... Stuttgartiae (Sumptibus Librariae E. Schweizerbart) 1852. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1852, p. \[1\]-163. *Copies*: BM, G. – "Seorsim impressa ex Ledebour Flor. Ross. Vol. IV" i.e. reprinted and to be cited from C.F. von Ledebour, *Flora Rossica*... Vol. 4 \[Apr 1852\], see TL 2/2, nr. 4285. ##### n.37.248. Fendler **Title** Ueber die von *Fendler* in *Venezuela* gesammelten *Bromeliaceen*... (Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der G. A. Universität zu Göttingen) 1864. Oct. **Notes** *Collector*: Fendler, August (1813-1883), see TL-2/1: 822-823 and IH 2: 193. *Publ*.: 13 Jan 1864 (signed p. \[1\], read 2 Jan 1864), p. \[1\]-21. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Nachr. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ. Nr. 1: 1-21. 1864. ##### n.37.249. Gramineen Hochasiens **Title** Ueber die *Gramineen Hochasiens*... (Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der G. A. Universität zu Göttingen) 1868. Duod. **Notes** *Publ*.: 12 Feb 1868 (in journal, read 1 Feb 1868), p. \[61\]-93. *Copies*: G, HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), WU. – Reprinted and to be cited from Nachr. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ. Nr. 3: 61-93. 1868. – Republished in *Gesamm. Abh.*... p. 286-306. 1880 (see nr. 37.251 below). ##### n.37.250. Species novae **Title** *Species novae* vel *criticae*, quae a 1877 in Horto Gottingensi floruerunt... Gottingae (W. Fr. Kaestner) 1877. Fol. **Notes** *Publ*.: 13 Dec 1877 (p. 8), p. 8 \[only\]. *Copy*: U. *Note*: Final page of "Index Seminum Horti Academici Gottingensis 1877". ##### n.37.251. Gesammelte Abhandlungen **Title** *Gesammelte Abhandlungen* und kleinere Schriften zur *Pflanzengeographie*... Leipzig (Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann) 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gesamm. Abh.* **Notes** *Editor*: Grisebach, Eduard Rudolf (1845-1906), diplomat and son of A.H.R. Grisebach. *Publ*.: 1880 (pref. dated Sep 1880), p. \[i\], portr. (after a phot. by W. Unger), \[iii\]-vi, \[vii\], \[1\]-628. *Copies*: BM, HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY (n.v.), U, USDA. *Ref*.: Engler, A., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 517. 5 Apr 1881 (lists the 12 works reprinted). ##### n.37.252. Flora Europaea **Title** Reliquiae Grisebachianae. *Flora Europaea*. *Fragmentum*. Auctore Augusto Grisebach. Ex manuscripto a clarissimo e vita decessi filio Edvardo Grisebach Germaniae... edidit Augustus Kanitz... Claudiopoli \[Cluj, Romania\] (E. Demjén) 1882. Oct. **Notes** *Editor*: Kanitz, August (1843-1906), see TL-2/2: 494-496 and IH 2: 341. *Publ*.: 1882, cover-t.p., p. \[i-iv\], 1-58. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, K, NY (n.v.). *Note*: Grisebach, Eduard Rudolf (1845-1906), diplomat and son of A.H.R. Grisebach.