> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 9](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066311) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12982-1) LSID 12982-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21611974) QID Q21611974 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wagner, Hermann (of Weissenfels) (1824-1879), German (Saxonian) high school teacher and botanist; teacher at Weissenfels 1846; assistant teacher at the girls school of the Frankische Stiftung, Halle 1850; teacher at the higher girls school Bielefeld 1851-1857; from 1857-1863 in charge of a department of the Verlagsbuchhandlung Spamer in Reudnitz near Leipzig and later living from the sale of his herbaria in Neuschönfeld; retired from teaching because of loss of hearing. **Abbreviated name**: *H. Wagner* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.Wagner*\] #### Herbarium and types Most holdings of herbaria consist of sets or partial sets of his series of exsiccatae. Our information is incomplete. - (1) *Cryptogamen-Herbarium*, Bielefeld 1852-1862, fasc. 1-9, 25 specimens per fascicle (1-5: 1852-1854; ser. 2. 6-10. 1854-1862); Sets at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BUC|BUC]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection S|S]]. – For accompanying text see *Führ. Crypt*. below. See Sayre (1969). - (2) *Gras-Herbarium*, Lief. 1-8, nos. 1-201, Bielefeld 1855. A third edition is mentioned in the periodical literature 1880-1884 (10 Lief.). - (3) *Phanerogamen-Herbarium*, Lief. 1-8, nos. 1-200. 1857-1858. - (4) *Arznei- und Giftgewächse*, Lief. 1-5, nos. 1-125. - (5) *Alpenstrauss*, enthaltend die schönsten Gewächse der Alpen. Bielefeld, s.d., 50 specimens. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 448; BFM p. 324 \[index\]; BJI 1: 61; BM 5: 2246; De Toni 1: cxxvii, 2: cxix; DTS 1: 318; GR p. 52 (b. 10 Nov 1824, d. 28 Jun 1879); Herder p. 62, 96, 189, 267, 278; Jackson p. 50, 52, 54, 59, 133, 148, 221, 294; PR 9900-9904; Tucker 1: 727, 3: 321; Urban-Berl. p. 407. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 5: 319. 1857, 8: 384. 1860; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 251: 451-452. 1965. - Huth, H., Hermann Wagner, Ein Lebensbild... Bielefeld 1884 (obit., portr.; b. 10 Nov 1824 Weissenfels, d. 28 Jun 1879 at Neuschönfeld). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 53-54. 1969. ### Publications ##### n.16.483. Führer ins Reich der Cryptogamen **Title** *Führer ins Reich der Cryptogamen*. Für Lehrer und Schüler... Bielefeld (Verlag von A. Helmich) 1852-1854, 5 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Führ. Crypt.* **Notes** *1* (*Laubmoose*): 1852 (ÖbZ 4 Nov 1852), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-42. – With 25 herbarium specimens. *2* (*Lebermoose*): 1852, p. \[1\]-51, *1 pl*. and 25 specimens. *3* (*Flechten*): 1853, p. \[1\]-55, \[56, colo.\], *1 pl*. and 25 specimens. *4* (*Algen*): 1853, p. \[1\]-72, *1 pl*. and 25 specimens. *5* (*Pilze und Gefässcryptogamen*): 1854, p. \[1\]-56, *1 pl*. and 20 specimens. *Copies*: G, H. *Ed. 2. 1* (*Laubmoose*): 1853, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-42, 25 specim. *Copy*: NY. *2* (*Lebermoose*): 1852 (original issue). *3* (*Flechten*): 1855, p. \[1\]-56, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson. *4* (*Algen*): 1855, p. \[1\]-72, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson. *5* (*Pilze*...): 1857, p. \[1\]-56, *1 pl*., 20 specim. *Copies*: B, NY. *Ed. 3. 1* (*Laubmoose*): 1853, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-48, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copy*: Stevenson. *2* (*Lebermoose*): 1855, p. \[1\]-55 *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson. *3* (*Flechten*): 1857, p. \[1\]-56, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: B, MICH, NY. *4* (*Algen*): 1857, p. \[1\]-72, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: B, MICH, NY. *Ed. 4*: *1* (*Laubmoose*): 1856, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-48, *1 pl*. 25 specim. *Copies*: MICH, NY. *2* (*Lebermoose*): 1857, p. \[1\]-55, *1 pl*., 25 specim. *Copies*: B, NY. *Ed. 5*: *1* (*Laubmoose*): 1857, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-48, 25 specim. *Copies*: B, MICH, NY. *Ref*.: H-l., Bot. Zeit. 10: 659-661. 17 Sep 1852 (rev. part 1). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 53-54. 1969 (q.v. for the continuation of the exsiccatae by A. Wagner). ##### n.16.484. Die Familien der Halbgräser und Gräser **Title** *Die Familien der Halbgräser und Gräser* (Juncaceen, Cyperaceen und Gramineen). Eine Anleitung zum Studium derselben für Anfänger, sowie für Freunde der Naturwissenschaften überhaupt bearbeitet und mit einem Herbarium in Verbindung gebracht ... Bielefeld (Verlag von August Helmich) 1854-1855, 2 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fam. Halbgräs. Gräs.* **Notes** *Associated herbarium*: see Herbarium and types (2) *Gras-Herbarium*. *1* (*Halbgräser*): Aug 1854 (p. vi: Jul 1854; p. \[98\]: Aug 1854), p. \[iii\*\]-vi\*, \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-97, \[98\], *pl. 1-2*. *2* (*Gräser*): 1855, p. \[1\]-144, *pl. 1-2*. *Copies*: B, NY. *Reissue*: 1857. *Copies*: B, G, HH, M. *1*: \[iii\*\]-vi\*, \[i\]-vi, 1-97, \[98\], *pl. 1-2*. *2*: \[1\]-144, *pl. 1-2*. ##### n.16.485. Die Pflanzendecke der Erde **Title** *Die Pflanzendecke der Erde* in pflanzengeographischen Bildern and Schilderungen ... Bielefeld (Verlag von Velhagen und Klasing) 1857. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pfl. – Decke Erde*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1857 (p. vi: Sommer 1857; Bonplandia 1 Nov 1857), p. \[ii-viii\], \[1\]-464. *Copies*: B-S, G, KNAW, MO, NY. – Second title page: *Pflanzenkunde für Schülern*... Dritter Cursus: Das Pflanzenreich in seiner Vertheilung über die Oberfläche der Erde, sonst und jetzt. – The first *Cursus* was *Das Leben... der Pflanze*, which went through at least nine editions; the second: *Das natürliche Pflanzensystem*, at least five editions.