> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 805](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069047) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5393-1) LSID 5393-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64544) QID Q64544 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ledebour, Carl \[Karl\] Friedrich von (1785-1851), German botanist (bora at Stralsund, then Swedish Pomerania); Dr. phil. Greifswald 1805; studied and resided in Greifswald and Stockholm 1805-1811; professor of botany in Dorpat 1811-1836; travelled widely in Russia and the Altai region with Meyer and Bunge; retired 1836 to Heidelberg to work at his *Flora rossica*; ultimately in München 1844-1851. **Abbreviated name**: *Ledeb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ledeb.*\] #### Herbarium and types Ledebour's herbarium and original material for the *Flora rossica* are in the Russian herbarium of [[Collection LE|LE]]. Duplicates are in many herbaria, e.g. [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg); the types are mainly in [[Collection LE|LE]]. *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 3: 383. 1856. - Herder, F. G. T. M. von, Bot. Jahrb. 9: 431, 432, 439. 1888. - Kukkonen, I., Herb. Christian Steven 66. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 18: 111; AG 5(1): 577; Backer p. 319; Barnhart 2: 358; BM 3: 1077; Clokie p. 198; CSP 3: 921, 8: 187; Frank 3(Anh.): 56; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Ledeb."); IF p. 714; IH 2: 422; Jackson p. 571; Kew 3: 394; Lasègue p. 419-420, 573; MW p. 263-264; NI 1155; PR 5133-5140; Rehder 5: 497; SK 4: cxcvi; TL-2/1: 913, 1652, 1676; TR 747-756; Tucker 1: 418; Urban-Berl. p. 431, 432, 439; Zander ed. 10, p. 683. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 9: 590. 1851, 10: 1852; Flora 34: 416. 1851; Proc. Linn. Soc. 2: 193-195. 1852 (1855). - Hooker, W. J., J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3: 283. 1851, 4: 65-67. 1852 (transl. obit. by Martius). - Ledebour, F. G. v., Reise durch das Altai-Gebirge und die Soongorische Kirgisensteppe. Berlin 1829-1830, 2 vols. (vol. 1: Ledebour's Reise). - Martius, C. F. P. von, Akad. Denkreden 317-321. 1886. - Möbius, M., *in* A. Hofmeister, Pommersche Lebensbilder 3: 256-265. 1939 (bibl., portr.). - Natho, *in* Festschr. 500-Jahrfeier Univ. Greifswald 2: 547-552. 1956 (portr., bibl.; important recent brief biography based on orig. sources, mainly dealing with the Greifswald period). - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 438. 1963. - Radde, G., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Kaukasusländer 3, 4, 14-15. 1899 (Veg. Erde 3). - Reveal & Hafen, *in* Hafen et al., Western America ed. 3. 381. 1970. - Shetler, S. G., Komarov Bot. Inst. 30, 31, 139, 198. 1967. - Stearn, W. T., J. Arnold Arb. 22(2): 225-230. 1941. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 93. 1898. #### Composite works - (1) *Supplement 1*, 1811, p. \[1\]-5 (by Ledebour), to J. A. Weinmann, *Der botanische Garten der kaiserl. Universität zu Dorpat, im Jahre 1810.* \[Dorpat 1810\], see sub J. A. Weinmann. - (2) Collaborated in E. Eichwald, *Pl. nov.* 1831-1833 (TL2/1652). #### Handwriting - (1) K. SV. Vet.-Akad. Handl. ser. 3. 5(1): 7, fig. 1 (11); - (2) Festschrift 500-Jahrfeier Univ. Greifswald 2: 550. 1956; - (3) Candollea 31: 321-322. 1976. #### Eponymy *Ledebouria* A. W. Roth (1821); *Ledebouriella* H. Wolff (1910); *Ledeburia* \[sic\] Link (1821). ### Publications ##### n.4281. Dissertatio botanica sistens plantarum domingensium decadem **Title** *Dissertatio botanica sistens plantarum domingensium decadem* quam condensu ampliss. ordinis philosophici, publico bonorum judicio submittunt Carol. Frider. Ledebour... et Joh. Patric. Alderstam, nobilis Gothoburgensis, in aud. min. die 18 Maii 1805. h.a.m.s. Gryphiae \[Greifswald\], (litteris J. H. Eckhardt,...) s.d. \[1805\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Diss, bot. pl. doming.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Johann Patricius Alderstam (possibly only opponens). *Publ*.: 18 Mai 1805, p. \[1\]-27. *Copy*: M. – Description of ten plants from Domingo from the herbarium (then at Greifswald) of Carl Asmund Rudolphi (1771-1832). ##### n.4282. Monographia generis Paridum **Title** *Monographia generis Paridum* qua ad scholas audiendas invitat D. C. F. Ledebour. Cum tabula aenea. Dorpat, (ex officina academica J. C. Schuenmanni.) 1827. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Monogr. Parid.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1827 (p. \[ii\]: 22 Feb 1827), p. \[i\]-x, *1 pl*. (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: M. ##### n.4283. Flora altaica **Title** *Flora altaica*. Scripsit d. Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour,... adiutoribus d. Car. Ant. Meyer et d. Al. a Bunge,... Berolini \[Berlin\], (typis et impensis G. Reimeri.) 1829-1833, 4 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. altaic.* **Notes** *Collaborators*: Carl Anton Meyer (1795-1855); Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge (1803-1890). *1*: Nov-Dec 1829, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-440. *2*: Jul-Dec(?) 1830, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-464. *3*: Jul-Dec(?) 1831, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-368. *4*: Jul-Dec 1833, p. \[i, iii\], \[i\]-xcvi \[index\], \[i\]-xiv, \[1-2 adv.\], \[1\]-336; of which the index probably publ. 1834. *Copies*: G (has index), MO, NY, US, USDA; IDC 5296. – For dates see TL-1/654. *Suppl*. \[*1*\]: A. A. v. Bunge, *Verzeichniss der im Jahre 1832 in östlichen Theile des Altai-Gebirges gesammelten Pflanzen*, Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg (Sav. étrang.) 2: 523-610. 1835; reprinted St. Petersburg 1836, 114 p. (see TR 198). *Suppl*. \[*2*\]: H. G. Bongard et C. A. Meyer, *Verzeichniss der im Jahre 1838 am Saisang-Nor und am Irtysch gesammelten Pflanzen*, Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg ser. 6. Sci. nat. 4: 157-246. 1845; preprinted St. Petersburg 1841, 90 p., 16 pl. (see TR 150). ##### n.4284. Icones plantarum **Title** *Icones plantarum* novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes edidit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour,... Rigae (apud I. Deubner), Londini, Parisiis et Argentorati (apud Treuttel et Würtz), Bruxellae (in Libraria Parisiensi) 1829-1835, 5 centuriae. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. pl.* **Notes** *1*: p. \[i-v, dated Mai 1829\], \[1\]-24, \[1-2, index\], *pl. 1-100.* *2*: p. \[1\]-28, \[1-2, index\], *pl. 101-200.* *3*: p. \[1\]-28, \[1-2, index\], *pl. 201-300.* *4*: p. \[1\]-26, \[1-2, index\], *pl. 301-400.* *5*: p. \[1\]-28, \[1-8, indices\], *pl. 401-500.* |vol. |*plates* |dates | |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1-100 |Mai-Dec 1829 |2 |101-200 |late 1830 | |3(1) |201-250 |1831 |3(2) |251-300 |Mai-Jun 1832| |4 |301-400 |late 1833 or Jan-Jun 1834| |5 |401-500 |Jul-Oct 1834| *Copies*: G, MICH, MO, NY. – All volumes published in two parts of *50 pl*. each; the lithographed plates are stated to be coloured in some copies (none seen by us). For artists see NI. *Facsimile ed*.: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1968, ISBN 3-7682-0567-3, p. \[i-iv\], followed by facsimile in which on 1: (iv) a bibliographical note by F. A. Stafleu. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: Stafleu, F. A., Ledebour's Icones plantarum novarum, *in* facsimile edition Lehre 1968, Historiae naturalis classica 70 (see also Taxon 18: 458. 1969). - Correspondence Ledebour – W. J. Hooker, at Kew. ##### n.4285. Flora rossica **Title** *Flora rossica* sive enumeratio plantarum in totius imperii rossici provinciis europaeis, asiaticis, et americanis hucusque observatarum... Stuttgartiae (Sumptibus librariae E. Schweizerbart) \[1841\] 1842-1853, 4 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. ross.* **Notes** *1*: 1841-1843, p. \[i\*, iii\*\], \[i\]-xvi, \[1\*\]-22\* conspectus, \[1\]-790, map. *2*: 1843-1846, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-461, \[1\]-13 conspectus, \[463\]-937, \[1\]-12 conspectus. *3*: 1847-1851, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-492, \[1\]-13 conspectus, \[i\], \[493\]-866, \[1\]-8, conspectus. *4*: 1852-1853, p. \[1\], \[1\]-741, \[1\]-16 conspectus. *Copies*: G, MO; IDC 6009. |vol. |part |pages |conspectus pages |dates |dates of rec. by Hinrichs| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |\[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-240 |1-8 |1841, sero| | |2 |241-480, \[i\] |9-16 |1-8 Oct 1842 |5-8 Oct 1843| | |3 |481-790 |17-22 |Mar-Apr 1843 |18 Apr 1843| |2(1) |4 |\[1\]-204 | |Sep 1843| | |5 |205-462 | |Jul 1844 |23-25 Oct 1844| |2(2) |6 |463-718 |1-13 |Jun 1845 |1-3 Sep 1845| | |7 |719-937 |ii, 1-12; Fl. ross. Fontes i-vi; \[i\*\] |Aug 1846 |1-5 Aug 1846| |3(1) |8 |\[1\]-256 | |Oct 1847 |29 Sep-2 Oct 1847| | |9 |257-492, \[i-iii\] |1-13 |Jun 1849| |3(2) |10 |493-684 |1-4 |Nov 1850 |27-30 Nov 1850| | |11 |685-866 |5-8 |Dec 1851 |1-3 Jan 1852| |4 |12 |\[1\]-240 | |Apr 1852 |10-11 Mai 1852| | |13 |241-464 | |Sep 1852 |14-15 Oct 1852| | |14 |465-741, \[i\] |1-16 |Jun 1853 |7-8 Jul 1853| Grisebach is the author of the Gramineae (some types at GOET) (G. Wagenitz, in litt.); Eduard Fenzl of the treatments of *Gypsophyla*, Alsineae, Paronychieae, Portulacaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Salsolaceae and Amarantaceae, (H. W. Reichardt, Leopoldina 18: 150. 1880); A. von Bunge of *Pedicularis*; E. H. F. Meyer of *Juncaceae*; L. C. Treviranus of *Carex*. – Ledebour died 4 Jul 1851; parts 11-14 were prepared for the press by Grisebach (1814-1879) and other collegues. *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von et al., Bot. Zeit. 1: 402-403. 9 Jun 1843 (fasc. 3); 1: 849. 8 Dec 1843 (fasc. 4); 2: 730-731. 18 Oct 1844 (fasc. 5); 3: 617. 12 Sep 1845 (fasc. 6); 4: 621-622. 4 Sep 1846 (fasc. 7); 5: 871. 3 Dec 1847 (fasc. 8); 9: 199-200. 7 Mar 1851 (10); 10: 143. 13 Feb 1852 (fasc. 11); 10: 723. 8 Oct 1852 (fasc. 12); 11: 630-631. 2 Sep 1853. - Bourdeille, Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou ser. 2. 6: 378. 1893. - Junk, Rara 65. 1900-1912. ##### n.4286. Commentarius in J. G. Gmelini Floram sibiricam **Title** *Commentarius in J. G. Gmelini Floram sibiricam* \[Regensburg 1841\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Comment. Gmel. Fl. sibir.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Nov 1841, p. \[43\]-138. *Copies*: G, MO. – Reprinted from Denkschr. Bayr. bot. Ges. Regensburg 3: 43-138. 1841. – See TL-2/2047. ##### n.4287. Ueber Pugionium cornutum **Title** *Ueber Pugionium cornutum*. Gaertn. Von Dr. C. F. v. Ledebour \[München 1844\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1844, p. \[1\]-7, *1 pl*. (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: WU. – Abh. math.-physik. Classe, k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(3): 115-122. 1844 \[-46\]. To be cited from journal.