> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 609](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068851) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4940-1) LSID 4940-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5561664) QID Q5561664 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Kolbe, Robert Wilhelm (1882-1960), Russian born diatomologist with Finnish nationality, of German-Finnish-Russian descent; studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin 1898-1899 and at the Technische Hochschule Dresden until 1904; business administrator in Russia until 1918; emigrated to Finland 1918/1919, returned to Germany to take his degree in the natural sciences with e.g. Kolkwitz and Engler; diatomologist in Germany until 1946, finally in Sweden at the Stockholm natural history museum. **Abbreviated name**: *Kolbe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kolbe*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection S|S]]-PA. *Ref*.: Wornardt, W. W., Int. direct. Diat. 34. 1968. - Koster, J., Taxon 18: 554. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 311 (Robert William); IH 2: 377; Kew 3: 294; Roon p. 62. - Selling, O., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 56(1): 203-222. 1962 (portr., bibl.); Nova Hedwigia 4: 275-298. 1962 (portr., bibl.). #### Composite works - (1) Drygalski, E. v., (edit.), *Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition* 1901-1903, with H. Herden, *Die marinen Diatomeen der deutschen Süd-Polar-Expedition* 1901-1903, vol. 8: 447-715, pl. *31-43* (1-13); Berlin, Leipzig 1928. - (2) For further composite works see the excellent, detailed bibliography of Kolbe by Selling (1962). #### Eponymy *Kolbeana* B. V. Skvortzov (1969). ### Publications ##### n.3849. Zur Ökologie, Morphologie und Systematik der Brackwasser-Diatomeen **Title** *Zur Ökologie, Morphologie und Systematik der Brackwasser-Diatomeen*. Die Kieselalgen des Sperenberger Salzgebiets... Jena (Verlag von Gustav Fischer) 1927. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ökol. Brackwasser-Diatom.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1927 (Nat. Nov.), p. \[i\]-v, \[1\]-146, *pl. 1-3* (with text). *Copies*: FH, US. Pflanzenforschung, herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. R. Kolkwitz, Berlin-Dahlem, Heft 7. – Trade edition, with added contents, preface, index and plates of his thesis: *Studien über die Diatomeenflora des Sperenberger Salzgebiets*, Berlin, Jena 1926, p. 1-143 (n.v.).