> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 802](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190273) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8416-1) LSID 8416-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607240) QID Q21607240 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ritter, Johann Jakob (1714-1784), Swiss botanist; sometime professor at Franeker, Netherlands; ultimately at Gnadenfrei in Silezia. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Ritter* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Ritter*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 160 (b. 15 Jul 1714, d. 23 Nov 1784); Dryander 3: 447; PR 7648, ed. 1: 8603; Rehder 5: 727. #### Biofile - Spilger, L., Ber. Oberhess. Ges. Nat.-Heilk. Giessen, ser. 2. Naturw. 12: 40-77. 1929 (on his "Flora riedeselia"). #### Eponymy *Rittera* Schreber (1789, also named for Albert Ritter (1681-1755)). *Note*: It is not clear for which Ritter *Rittera* Rafinesque (1840) is named. ### Publications ##### n.9258. Tentamen historiae naturalis **Title** Joannis Jacobi Ritteri... *Tentamen historiae naturalis* ditionis Riedeselio-avimontanae in quatuor partes, nempe floram, mineralogiam, faunam et commentatiunculam de aere, aquis et locis etc. divisium. \[*in*: Acta phys.-med. Acad. Leop.-Carol. Ephemerides 10, appendix, Norimbergae (Nürnberg) 1754\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1754, botany as "Praemonenda circa Floram Riedeselicam" in Act. Leop. Ephem. 10 (App.): 25-114. 1754 (copy of journal in PPAN). *Study*: L. Spilger, Ritters Flora riedeselia, Ber. Oberhess. Ges. Nat.-Heilk., Giessen, ser. 2. nat. Abt. 12: 40-77. 1929.