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### Author
Kneiff, Friedrich Gotthard (1785-1832), Alsatian botanist and pharmacist (1817-1832) at Strasbourg.
**Abbreviated name**: *Kneiff* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kneiff*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
*Exsiccatae*:
- (1) *Plantae cryptogamicae quas in magno ducatu badensi* collegerunt Gotthard, Kneiff et Eman. Frideric. Hartmann, fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-200, 1828-1830, sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection STR|STR]].
- (2) *Musci frondosi quas in Alsatia, variisque Helvetiae et Germaniae partibus* collegerunt F. G. Kneiff ... et Ch. Ph. W. Maercker pharm. cand.... Argentorati (typis vituae \[fasc. 2 onward: viduae\] J. H. Silbermann), fasc. 1-10, nos 1-250, 1825-1832, sets at [[Collection BERN|BERN]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NCY|NCY]], [[Collection PC|PC]], Steere, [[Collection STR|STR]]. \[Title taken from cover fasc. 1; further details see Sayre\].
*Ref*.: Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 30-32. 1969, 19(2): 222. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 302; CSP 3: 685; Frank 3(Anh.): 51; GR p. 97; IH 2: 370; Lasègue p. 289, 290; MD p. 170; PR (alph.).
- Anon., Flora 15: 669-671. 1832.
- Kirschleger, F., Fl. Alsace 2: lxxiv. 1857.
#### Eponymy
*Kneiffia* Spach (1835); *Kneiffia* E. M. Fries (1836); *Kneiffiella* Underwood (1897); *Neokneiffia* Saccardo (1898). *Kneiffiella* P. A. Karsten (1889) probably commemorates him.