> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 3](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068245) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3526-1) LSID 3526-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816171) QID Q816171 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hacquet, Belsazar (Balthasar) (1739-1815), Bretagne (Brittany) born French-Austrian physician, botanist and geologist; born at Conquet (Bretagne); high school teacher at Laibach (Ljubljana); 1788 prof. natural history at Lemberg (Lwow); later mining counsel at Vienna; explorer of Croatia and the Carpathians. **Abbreviated name**: *Hacq.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hacq.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown, "nel museo agrario di Lubiana" (Saccardo). *Note on name*: Dalla Torre (DTS 6 (4): 145) corrects the generally used later (Austrian) Balthasar to the (Brittany) Belsazar. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6 (1): 20; Backer p. 250; Barnhart 2: 106; BM 2: 759; Bossert p. 158; CSP 3: 109-110; DTS 1: 100; Dawson p. 379; Dryander 5: 264; GR p. 325; Hortus 3: 1194 ("Hacq."); Jackson p. 265; Kanitz no. 174; Kew 2: 544; LS 10674-10675; NI 771; PR 3673 (ed. 11401 1-4015); Quenstedt p. 181; Rehder 5: 357; Saccardo 1: 87-88, 2: 57, cron. p. xxiv; WU 7: 163; Zander ed. 10, p. 660. - Beck, G., Vegetationsverh. Illyr. Länder 3, 35. 1901 (Veg. Erde 4). - Hoelzl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 11: 433-446. 1861 (on H's observations in the Carpathian Mts.). - J., Dict. Sci. méd. 5: 10-12. 1822 (bibl.). - Kanitz, A., Pl. roman. xx. 1881. - Pax, F., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Karpathen 7-8, 31. 1898 (Veg. Erde 2(1)). - Szafer, W., Concise hist. bot. Cracow 41, 48. 1969. - Voss, W., Jahresber. Staats- Oberrealschule Laibach 1884: 20-24 (n.v., fide DTS 1: 100). #### Eponymy *Hacquetia* Necker ex A.P. de Candolle (1830). ### Publications ##### n.2232. Plantae alpinae carniolicae **Title** *Plantae alpinae carniolicae*. Collegit et descripsit Balth. Hacquet.... Viennae \[Wien\] (Sumptibus bibliopolae Joannis Pauli Kraus) 1782. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. alp. carniol.* **Notes** *Orig*.: 1782, p. \[1\]-16, *pl. 1-5*, uncol. copper engr. Joseph Pallnstorff (sign, on *pl. 1*). *Copies*: G, NY, Teyler, USDA, WU. *Other edition*: 1782, Viennae (Sumptibus bibliopolae Joannis Pauli Kraus), p. \[1\]-31, *pl. 1-5* (as in original issue). *Copy*: WU. – This 31 p. edition has a different, more elaborate, text; on the t.p. the author is given as "Hacquet" (16 p. ed.: "Balth. Hacquet"); the word *Carnioliae* is in italics fancy letters (16 p. ed. roman, traditional). PR mentions a Wappler imprint for the 16 p. ed.; this has not been traced by us. ##### n.2233. physikalisch-politische Reisen **Title** Hacquet's neueste *physikalisch-politische Reisen* in den Jahren 1788 und 1789 durch *die dacischen und sarmatischen* oder nördlichen *Karpathen*. Nürnberg (im Verlag der Raspischen Buchhandlung) 1790-1796, 4 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reis. dac. sarm. Karpathen*. **Notes** *1*: 1790, frontisp., xxiv, 207 p., *pl. 1-7* (col. copper engr.). *2*: 1791, xxvi, 249, \[6, err.\], *pl. 1-6* (id.). *3*: 1794, xxvi, 247, 3 charts, *pl. 1-7* (1-6 col., 7 maps). *4*: 1796, xvi, 254, \[2, err.\], *pl. 1-6* (4-6 col.). *Copy*: WU (analysis: W. Gutermann). Hacquet's other travelogues were "*Mineralogisch-botanische Lustreise von dem Berge Terglou in Krain bis zu dem Berge Glockner in Tyrol im Jahr 1779*" (Wien 1784, Oct.), "*Physikalisch-politische Reise aus den dinarischen durch die julischen... Alpen in den Jahren 1781 und 1792 unternommen*" (Leipzig, 4 vols., 1785-1787, Oct.); *Reisen durch die norischen Alpen*,... (Nürnberg, 2 vols., 1791, Oct.). (all n.v.). Motto on frontisp. of present work, on the Carpathians: "An diesen Felsen gränzt in wilder Wüsteney Der Muselmannen Reich die Moldau, Wallachey Dort wohnet Christ und Türck, und zeigt durch rohe Sitten Der sey Barbar getauft und der Barbar beschnitten."