> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 261](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068503) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4060-1) LSID 4060-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1101232) QID Q1101232 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Holmskjold, Theodor, until 1781 Holm, (1732-1794), Danish botanist physician, and administrator. **Abbreviated name**: *Holmsk.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Holmsk.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 25, 226, 313; Backer p. 270; Barnhart 2: 196; BM 2: 866; Dawson p. 818; Dryander 2: 190, 3: 224, 353, 471; Hortus 3: 1195 ("Holmsk."); Kew 3: 15, 18; Lasègue p. 545; LS (alph.), 34726; NI 906; PR 4185-4187 (ed. 1: 4627-4629); Stevenson p. 1245; Tucker 1: 347. - Christensen, C., Danske Bot. Hist. 1: 153-155, 2: 60-61. 1924. - Durand, J. Mycol. 13: 141-142. 1907 (relation with Persoon's *Commentatio*). - Lack & Baer, Willdenowia 8: 235-259. 1978. - Lind, J., Danish fungi herb. E. Rostrup 11-12. 1913 (portr.). - Lütjeharms, W. J., Gesch. Mykol. 198, 203, 213ff., 240, 242. 1936. - Rothmaler, W., Rep. Sp. nov. 53(1): 34. 1944. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 64-65. 1880 (bibl). #### Note Holmskjold was director of the Royal Danish china factories. In this capacity he promoted the production of the *Flora danica* china set made for Catharine II of Russia between 1790 and 1802 (See Lack and Baer 1978). #### Eponymy *Holmskioldia* \[sic\] A.J. Retzius (1791). ### Publications ##### n.2955. Beata ruris otia fungis danicis **Title** *Beata ruris otia fungis danicis* impensa a Theodore Holmskjold,... Havniae \[Kjøbenhavn\] (sumptibus universitatis bibliopolae Friderico Brummer) \[1790-1799\], 2 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Beata ruris*. **Notes** *Vol. 1: 1790*, p. \[i\]-xxiv. \[1-4, kort Forkl.\], \[1\]-118, \[1\]-38, *pl*. \[*1-32*\]. For non Danish editions see below under *Coryphaei Clavarias Ramariasque*..., no. 2956. *Vol. 2: 1799* (pref 9 Aug 1799), "post obi turn auctoris editum, curante Erico Viborg...", p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-70, \[1-6, i-e. 2 Fortale, 4 expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-42.* *Copies*: G, MO, Stevenson. – *Plates*: hand-col. copper engr. by Joh. Christoffer Bayer and Joh. Adolf Neander. *Other issue*: both volumes: Havniae (Sumtibus agentis regii ac universitatis bibliopolae Sören Gyldendal) 1799. *Vol. 1*: \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-118, \[1\]-38, *pl. \[1-33*; sic, one added\]. *Vol. 2*: \[i-viii\], p. iv: 9 Aug 1799, \[1\]-70, *pl. 1-42.* *Copies*: MICH, NY, USDA. *Ref*.: Christensen, C., Dansk. Bot. Hist. 2: 60-61. 1924. - Junk, Rara 167. - Killermann, S., Z. Pilzk. ser. 2. 8: 82-87. 1929. ##### n.2956. Coryphaei Clavarias Ramariasque **Title** *Coryphaei Clavarias Ramariasque* complectentes cum brevi structurae interioris exposition auctore Theodoro Holmskiold. Denuo cum adnotationibus editi nee non commentatione de fungis clavaeformibus aucti a C. H. Persoon. Accedunt tabulae lv aenea. Lipsiae \[Leipzig\] (Apud Petrum Philippum Wolf) 1797. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Coryph. Clav. Ramar.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1762-1836). *Publ*.: 1797 (p. iv: 12 Aug 1796), p. \[i\], \[iii\]-iv, 1-239, \[240, err.\] *pl. 1-4*, uncol. copper engr. *Copies*: G. – Text by Persoon on p. 131-240. See also Usteri, Neue Ann. Bot. 11: 30-149. 1796.