> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 446](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068688) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4500-1) LSID 4500-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21517043) QID Q21517043 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Johann Baptist, Fabian Sebastian, Archduke of Austria (1782-1859), Austrian amateur botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Johann Baptist* \[standard form in IPNI: *Joh.Baptist*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – A mss. *Icones plantarum alpinarum* at [[Collection W|W]]. #### Bibliography and biography BM 2: 934; Dawson p. 475; DTS 1: 134, 6(4): 158 (note on his mss. *Icones plantrum alpinarum*); PR 4443 (ed. 1: 4910); Rehder 1: 439; WU 6: 280-287. - Anon. (H. Wallmann), Der crlauchte Tourist und Alpenfreund Erzherzog Johann von Oesterreich. Wien s.d., 21 p. (portr.). #### Eponymy *Johannia* Willdenow (1803). *Note: Johannesbaptistia* G. De Toni (1934) is dedicated to Giovanni Batista De Toni (1864-1924), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.3362. Alpenpflanzen 1 **Title** *Alpenpflanzen 1* \[Wien ca. 1807\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Alpenpfl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Sets of coloured copper engravings by Johann Knapp, ordered by Johann Baptist are found at BM, GZU and W. For an extensive analysis and description of two of the sets (85 in GZU, and 36 at the Institut für Anatomie, Graz) and for the collection of 185 original watercolours (Alpenpflanzen I) see Widder (1960). The portfolio of original drawings at GZU contains part of the reputedly 300 drawings made for this purpose. Further sets of the engravings are at W (33 plates, not 92, with handwritten title *Icones plantarum alpinarum cum Archiducis Johannis peractae*, mentioned under this name by PR) and 51 plates at BM (BM 2: 934: "Johann Baptist... *Icones plantarum alpestrium Austriae*" title handwritten). An "*Alvawetischer Catalog von Alpenpflanzen*" by Johann Knapp (mss) is also at GZU. *Ref*.: Schrader, J. Bot. 1808(2): 373. - Rupprecht, Arch. Geogr. hist. Staats-Kriegskunst 12: 138-140. 1821 (n.v., fide Widder, provides details on Knapp's work and Johann Baptist's assignment to him). - Widder, F., Jahrb. Ver. Schutze Alpenpflanzen 25: 104-117. 1960 (extensive details).