> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 141](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333280) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9064-1) LSID 9064-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607893) QID Q21607893 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Scheuchzer, Johannes (1684-1738), Swiss botanist at Zürich; brother of J.J. Scheuchzer. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Scheuchzer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Scheuchzer f.*\] #### Herbarium and types See J.J. Scheuchzer; many specimens also in [[Collection P|P]]-HA. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 935; Backer p. 515; Barnhart 3: 227 (b. 20 Mar 1684, d. 8 Mar 1738); BM 4: 1830; Bossert p. 352; Clokie p. 238; Dryander 3: 152, 212, 214; Frank 3 (Anh.): 89-90; Hegi 1: 147; Herder p. 277; Jackson p. 132; Kew 4: 621; Lasègue p. 347; NI 1751; PR 3728, 8170-8172, ed. 1: 4082, 9113-9115; Saccardo 1: 149, 2199; TL-2/2314; Tucker 1: 629. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 214: 578-579. 1964. - Attinger, V., Dict. hist. biogr. Suisse 6: 9. 1932. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 447. 1880 (coll. ZT). - Cavillier, J., Boissiera 5: 87. 1941. - D-U, *in* J.F. Michaud, Biogr. univ. 28: 292-293. 1969 (reprint of 1854 ff. ed.). - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 187, 188, 193, 2(2): 51-52. 1943. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 794. 1863. #### Eponymy *Scheuchzeria* Linnaeus (1753) [^1]. #### Handwriting Savage, S., Cat. Linn. herb. fig. 70. 1945; J.E. Dandy, The Sloane herbarium, facs. 92. 1958, Clokie p. 279. ### Publications ##### n.10.574. Agrostographiae helveticae prodromus **Title** *Agrostographiae helveticae prodromus* sistens binas graminum alpinorum hactenus non descriptorum, & quorundam ambiguorum decades... \[Zürich\] (sumptibus auctoris) 1708. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Agrostogr. helv. prodr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1708, p. \[1\]-28, *pl. 1-8* (uncol. copp. J.H. Huber). *Copies*: NY, USDA. ##### n.10.575. Operis Agrostographici idea **Title** *Operis Agrostographici idea* seu graminum, juncorum cyperorum, cyperoidum, iisque affinium methodus... Tiguri \[Zürich\] (Typis Bodmerianis) 1719. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Oper. Agrostogr. idea*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1719 (p. \[vii\]: 4 Mar 1719), p. \[i-vii\], 1-93, \[94-106\]. *Copies*: MO, NY. ##### n.10.576. Agrostographia **Title** *Agrostographia* sive graminum, juncorum, cyperorum, cyperoidum, iisque affinium historia... Tiguri \[Zürich\] (Typis & sumptibus Bodmerianis) 1719. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Agrostographia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1719, p. \[i\*, t.p.\], \[sign. x5-x3, i-xxxviii\], 1-512, *pl. 1-11* (copp. D. Herrliberger), *pl. 1-8* (copp., J.H. Huber), Ttt1-Xxx4 \[1-24\]. *Copies*: BR, FI, G, H, HH, KNAW, M, MICH, MO, NSW, NY, USDA. – The set of 8 folded plates is identical with that in the Agrostogr. helv. prodr., 1708; this set is often lacking. *Later ed*.: 1775, see TL-2/2314, A. von Haller, *Agrostographia*, additional copies seen BR, FI, H, HH, M, MICH, MO, PH, USDA. [^1]: "*Scheuchzeria* L. 1753 (Scheuchzeriaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Johannes Scheuchzer (1684–1738), Swiss physician in Zurich, professor of physics, wrote about grasses in Switzerland **and** his brother Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672–1733) Swiss physician, professor of mathematics (Linnaeus, 1737: 96)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)