> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 484](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068726) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4611-1) LSID 4611-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58042) QID Q58042 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Kämpfer, Engelbert \[Kaempfer\] (1651-1716), German physician and traveller; secretary of the Swedish embassy to Russia and Persia; with the Dutch East Indian Company 1685-1693; subsequently physician to the Count of Lippe. **Abbreviated name**: *Kaempf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kaempf.*\] #### Herbarium and types The Sloane herbarium at [[Collection BM|BM]] contains (H.S. 211) the only known Kämpfer herbarium. The drawings in the *Amoenitates* seem to have been taken from some of the specimens. Some further specimens are at [[Collection OXF|OXF]] (Sherard herb.). The British Museum possesses an extensive collection of Kämpfer manuscripts. Among them are several volumes of drawings. Most of the botanical drawings (59) were published by Joseph Banks as *Icones selectae plantarum*. *Ref*.: Clokie p. 192; IH 2: 340. - Steam, W. T., Roy. Hort. Soc. Lily Year Book 12: 65-70. 1948. - Dandy, J. E., The Sloane herbarium 144-145. 1958. - Scott, E. J. L., Index to the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum 286. 1904. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 15: 62-64; AG 1: 180, 3: 500; Ainsworth p. 303; Backer p. 297; Barnhart 2: 266; BM 2: 953-954; Dawson p. 25, 940 \[index\]; Dryander 1: 135, 137, 138, 291, 2: 43, 163, 363, 437, 505, 3: 183, 360, 472, 481, 570, 577, 590, 655, 4: 174, 280, 5: 53, 98; Frank 3(Anh.): 49; GR p. 62; HA 2: 23-24; Henrey 2: 724 \[index\], 3: 65; HU 427; Jackson p. 30, 381; JW 1: 356, 2: 194, 5: 243; Kew 3: 206; Lasègue p. 322, 408, 503, 548; Moebius p. 140; MW 1: 221-222; NI 1018-1019; Plesch p. 286; PR 4563-4565 (ed. 1: 5080-5083); Quenstedt p. 227; Rehder 5: 443; SK 1: 269-270, 8: 411 (!); Tucker 1: 380. - Anon. \[J. L. Gilbert\], Gard. Chron. 160(19): 3. 1966. - Bergmann, Mitt. lipp. Gesch. Landesk. 20: 189-194. 1951 (K's Russian diary). - Boissier, E., Fl. orient. 1: xxvi. 1867. - Blunt, W., Art bot. ill. 122, 263. 1950. - Fries, Th. M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(2): 269. 1908, 1(3): 144. 1909, 1(6): 188. 1912. - Jourdan, Diet. Sci. Méd. 5: 393-395. 1822. - Halbertsma, Janus 45: 40-55. 1941. - Hara, H., Taxon 26: 584-587. 1977 (nom. notes on K's plants). - Hulth, J. M. & A. H. Uggla, Bref skrifv. Linné 2(2): 201. 1943. - Hylander, N., Acta Horti Berg. 16: 350-351. 1954. - Kaempfer, E., The history of Japan, London 1727 (see BM 2: 953). Modern version: The history of Japan together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-1692 by Engelbert Kaempfer,... translated by J. G. Scheuchzer, Glasgow 1906, 3 vols. (Contains a biography of Kaempfer). - Kaempfer, E., Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan, aus den Originalhandschriften des Verfassers herausgegeben von Christian Wilhelm Dahn, Lemgo, 1777-1779, 2 vols., reprinted in facsimile, Stuttgart 1964, 2 vols. - Meier-Lemgo, K., Engelbert Kämpfer, *in* Westfalische Lebensbilder, Hauptreihe 2.2., Münster i. W. 1931 (n.v.); Engelbert Kämpfer. Stuttgart 1937, 212 p., (important biography based on original sources, esp. Sloane mss. 2910, 2912, 2923, 3063, 3064 at BM, Bloomsbury; provides also refs. to earlier biographies); Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) erforscht das seltsame Asien. 2. berichtigte und erweiterte Auflage 1960. Hamburg, 193 p.; Abh. math.-naturw. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz 6: 265-314. 1965 (correspondence). - Pas, P. v.d., *in* Gillispie, DSB 7: 204-206. 1973 (bibl.) (q.v. for many refs. to biographies and studies of Kaempfer's botanical work.). - Pittelkov, Mitt. lipp. Gesch. Landesk. 20: 195-198. 1951 (on H's mss. at BM and books at Detmold). - Plott, Naturw. Rundschau 8: 454-455. 1955. - Seemann, J. Bot. 5: 250. 1867 (monument erected at Lemgo, Lippe). - Sirks, M. J., Indisch natuuronderzoek 298 \[index\]. 1915. - Scurla, H., edit., Reisen in Nippon, Berlin 1974, 571 p. - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 38. 1971. - Steam, R. Hort. Soc. Lily Year Book 12: 65-70. 1948 (Kaempfer and the lilies of Japan). - Thielen, H. S., Der Medikus Engelbert Kämpfer entdeckt das Unterhimmlische Reich. Leipzig 1934. - Urness, C., A naturalist in Russia 37. 1967. - Veendorp, H. & L. G. M. Baas-Becking, Hortus acad. lugd.-bat. 1587-1937: 153. 1938. #### Eponymy *Caulokaempferia* Larsen (1964); *Kaempfera* Houstoun (1781); *Kaempferia* Linnaeus (1753); *Kempfera* \[sic\] Adanson (1763). ### Publications ##### n.3483. Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V **Title** *Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V*, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerum persicarum & ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus per universum orientem, collectae,...Lemgoviae \[Lemgo, Lippe\] (Typis & impensis Henricis Wilhelmi Meyeri,...) 1712. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Amoen. exot. fasc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1712, p. \[ii-iii\], front., \[v-xx\], \[1\]-912, index \[1-32\]. *Copies*: G, MO, NY, U, USDA. – A list of Japanese plants, with 28 plates, on p. 765-912. The 90 illustrations are copper engravings of drawings by the author. *Extract*: K. Meier-Lemgo, Engelbert Kämpfer, seltsames Asien (Amoenitates exoticae) in Auswahl übersetzt. Detmold 1933; ed. 2, Hamburg 1960. *Ref*.: DU 162; GF p. 62; HE p. 29; HU 427; SA 2: 572. - Thunberg, P., Kaempferus illustratus, Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. 3: 196-209. 1780, 4: 31-40. 1784, also in Misc. papers 1935, pp. 10-23, 229-238. - Meier-Lemgo, K., Engelbert Kämpfer. 1937. - Stearn, W. T., Lily Year Book 12: 65-70. 1948 (K. and the lilies of Japan). - Hylander, N., Acta horti bergiani 16: 350-351. 1954. - Stafleu, F. A., Intr. Jussieu Gen. pl. 1789 (reprint) xxxix. 1964. ##### n.3484. Icones selectae plantarum **Title** *Icones selectae plantarum*, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo britannico asservatis. Londini: 1791. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. select. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1791 (Dawson p. 396), p. \[i\], \[iii\], \[1\]-3, *pl. 1-59*, uncoloured copper engr. *Copies*: G, MO, NY, U, US; IDC 1123. – The engravings are of drawings by the author at BM (dept. of mss., S1. ms 2914) eight are double paged. No imprint, but possibly by Bulmer (see Collins in Sotheby no. 413). *Ref*.: GF p. 62; Henrey 886; Jackson p. 381; Sotheby 413. - Zuccarini, Gel. Anz. bay. Akad. Wiss., München 18: 444-446. - Nakai, J. Arnold Arb. 6: 186-188. 1925 (modern nomenclature). - Kitamura, J. Hist. Sci. Japan 26: 19-24. 1953. - Henrey, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3: 104. 1955 (lists nos. of original drawings at BM). - Dawson, W., The Banks letters 1958.