> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 734](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120865) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2485-1) LSID 2485-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21511550) QID Q21511550 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ehrhart, Johann Balthasar (1700-1756), German physician and botanist, physician at Memmingen. **Abbreviated name**: *J. B. Ehrh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.B.Ehrh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. — Balthasar Ehrhart was the first to publish a series of exsiccatae: *Herbarium vivum recens collectum*, in quo centuriae V plantarum officinalium, turn et nonnullarum sacris litteris, auctoribus classicis, et usu oeconomico celebratarum, magna diligentia exsiccatarum et methodo hactenus probata, durabilium redditarum in natura, quod vocant, repraesentantur. Concomitatur Mantissa de necessitate herbaria viva bono publico tradendi, deque ea conficiendi methodo tractatur. Ulm 1732. (n.v., title from PR). Sets are at [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection MW|MW]] and [[Collection WU|WU]]. Pritzel mentions a "continuatio" of 1745-1746. *Ref*.: PR sub 2642. - Stafleu, Taxon 21: 352. 1972. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 499; BM 2: 516; DTS 1: 61, 6(4): 4; Jackson p. 4, 33; Langman p. 267; Quenstedt p. 127. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 223 \[index\]. 1800. - Z., Biogr. méd. 4: 15-16. 1821. #### Eponymy *Ehrharta* Thunberg (1779, *nom. cons.*).and *Ehrhartia* Wiggers (1780) are dedicated to Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742-1795), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1647. Oeconomische Pflanzenhistorie **Title** *Oeconomische Pflanzenhistorie* nebst dem Kern der Landwirthschafft Garten- und Arzneikunst. 1753-1762, Ulm und Memmingen (Gaumische Buchhandlung) 12 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Oecon. Pflanzenhist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Inadmissible as a source of generic names. Ehrhart uses Latin specific names of one or more words without distinction of generic names. Rothmaler (1939) and Dandy (1967) reject the work as inadmissible, a position which is here supported. For a contrary view see O. Schwarz (1939) who attributes a number of generic names to Ehrhart, all of which had in any case been validly published earlier by Miller or Hill. The last eight volumes were published after Ehrhart's death by Philipp Friedrich Gmelin. This author also published a "zweyte verbesserte Auflage" of volumes 1 and 2 (possibly also of vol. 3, cf. PR) which constitute IDG microfiche 824 (*copy* G). This second edition contains several textual amendments and omissions. Vol. 1 came out in 1756, (orig. 1753), vol. 2 in 1759 (orig. 1753). We have not seen the second edition of vol. 3. – *Copy* of original edition at Groningen University Library (vol. 1, 1753, NZgS 6 Sep 1753; vol. 7, NZgS 21 Apr 1760). *Ref*.: DA 1967, p. 7; Jackson p. 4; Langman p. 267; PR 2644; IDC 824 (vols. 1 & 2 ed. 2, vols. 3 & 4 orig. ed.). - Schwarz, Repert. Sp. nov. 46: 315. 1939. - Rothmaler, Repert. Sp. nov. 53: 28. 1944.