> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 555](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068797) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4819-1) LSID 4819-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583036) QID Q583036 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Kitaibel, Paul (1757-1817), Hungarian botanist at Budapest whose herbarium constitutes the basis of BP. **Abbreviated name**: *Kit.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kit.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BP|BP]] (bought 1818); other material [[Collection B|B]] (herb. Willd., extant), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. *Ref*.: Ascherson, P. F. A., Bemerkungen über einige Pflanzen des Kitaibel'schen Herbariums, Wien, 26 p. (repr. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 1867). - Javorká, S., Ann. Mus. natl. Hung. 24: 428-585. 1926, 26: 98-210. 1929, 28: 147-196. 1934, 29: 55-102. 1935, 30: 7-118. 1936, 38: 85-97. 1945 (Herbarium Kitaibelianum). - Szepesfalvi, Ann. Mus. natl. Hung. 36 (Bot.): 25-72. 1943 (bryoph.). - Moesz, Ann. Mus. natl. Hung. 20: 141-145. 1923 (fungi). - Györgi, Ann. Mus. natl. Hung. 36: 73-81. 1943 (lich.). - Harmatti, Bot. Közlem. 49(3-4): 334-345. 1962, 50(3): 141-145. 1963 (K's early travels). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 418, 5(1): 689, 766, 4: 85, 6(2): 934; Backer p. 303; Barnhart 2: 296; Blunt p. 168, 264; BM 2: 987; Bossert p. 212; CSP 3: 667; DSB 7: 390-391; Frank 3(Anh.): 51; Hortus 3: 1197 ("Kit."); IH 2: 364; Jackson p. 118, 267; Kanitz p. 59-62; Kew 3: 269; Lasègue p. 333, 337, 346, 527; Maiwald p. 87, 89, 120; NI (alph.); PR 4703-4704 (ed. 1: 5244); Rehder 5: 456; Tucker 1: 389; Urban-Berl. p. 363, 414; Zander ed. 10, p. 678. - Beck, G., Vegetationsverh. Illyr. Läder 3-4, 37. 1901 (Veg. Erde 4). - Gombocz, Endre, Diaria itinerum Pauli Kitaibelii. Auf Grund originaler Tagebücher zusammengestellt. Budapest 1945, 2 vols., 1082 p. - Harmatta, Botan. Közlem 50: 141-145. 1963 (diaries trips). - Jávorka, S., Kitaibel Pál., Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó 1957, 214 p. (bibl.) (contains a Nomenclator Kitaibelianus, p. 140-170); Acta bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 3(3-4): 213-218. 1957 (portr.), Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. natl. Hung. ser. 2. 8: 9-16. 1957. - Kanitz, A., Reliquiae Kitaibelianae, see TL-2/3502. - Kárpáti, Z., Bot. Közlem. 57(3): 161-163. 1970 (commemorative address). - Pax, F., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Karpathen 1: 8, 9, 29, 35, 52, 55, 59. 1898 (Veg. Erde 2(1)). - Priszter, Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest, Rolando Eötvos, Biol. 12: 201-205. 1970 (briefrev., with references, of work on K's herbarium). #### Composite works With A. Waldstein (q.v.) *Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae*. Wien 1803-1812. #### Note Kitaibel was born on 3 Feb 1757 in Mattersburg (Nagymarton) in what is now Austrian Burgenland. #### Handwriting Candollea 31: 135-136. 1976. #### Eponymy *Kitaibela* Willdenow (1799). #### Postage stamps Hungary 20 fi. (1967) yv. 1880.