> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 6](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355121) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5561-1) LSID 5561-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q470036) QID Q470036 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Libert, Marie-Anne (1782-1865), Belgian botanist, born in Malmédy. **Abbreviated name**: *Lib.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lib.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BR|BR]]; other material at [[Collection LG|LG]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna* collegit, fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-400, 1830-1837, sets at [[Collection B|B]] (destroyed), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DAO|DAO]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LG|LG]], [[Collection PAV|PAV]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection W|W]]. – L's library was dispersed by sale in Nov 1861. The manuscript of the text accompanying the *Plantae cryptogamicae* is at [[Collection BR|BR]]. – Specimens from the Libert herbarium were distributed by BR in 1879-1881 as *Reliquiae Libertianae*, types originaux don du Jardin Royal de Bruxelles". See Marchal (1872) and Thümen (1888); see also Bull. Soc. bot. France 27(bibl.): 47. 1880. #### Note Malmédy belonged to the principality of Liège in 1782 but became part of Prussia under the 1815 treaties. Mlle Libert then became Prussian by nationality but remained Belgian by birth, avocation and culture:" je suis Belge, moi; je suis née Belge et je mourrai Belge" (Du Mortier 1865). At her death she left a" dictionnaire wallon-français" of 599 mss. pages (see Haerens 1963). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 600; Backer p. 328; Barnhart 2: 378; Bossert p. 237; CSP 4: 5, 8: 220, 12: 446; Frank 3 (Anh.): 57; GR p. 690-691, eat. p. 67; Herder p. 237; Hortus 3: 1198; IHI (ed. 6): 361, 2: 440; Kelly p. 128, 254; Kew 3: 436; LS 15366-15373; PR 5282 (ed. 1: 5855); SBC p. 125 ("Lib."); Stevenson p. 1249; TL-2/2: see A. L. S. Lejeune. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 23: 108. 1865; Bull. Soc. bot. France, 12(bibl.): 95-96. 1865 (epon.); Bull. Soc. mycol. France 23: frontisp. portr. 1907; Flora 48: 60. 1865. Österr. bot. Z. 15: 90. 1865 (d. 13 Jan 1865, Malmédy). - Baines, J. E., Vict. Natural. 90: 228. 1973 (epon.). - Bouillenne, R., Acad. r. Belg. Bull. Cl. Sci. ser. 5. 51: 857-859. 1965. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 428. 1880. - Crépin, F., Guide bot. Belg. 233, 234, 457. 1878. - Du Mortier, B. C. J., Bull. Soc. bot. Belgique 4: 403-411. 1865 (obit., bibl.). - Evens, F. M. J. C., Gesch. algol. Belgie 179. 1944. - Haerens, G., Bull. trim. Cercle Libert Malmedy 1(3): 21-24, (4): 34-36. 1953 (portr.), 11(3): 34-43. 1963. - Laundon, J. R., Lichenologist 11: 13. 1979. - Lawalrée, A., Lejeunia 21: 7-19. 1957 (extensive information; letters to her by Lejeune); Rev. de Bot. 21: 7-9, *pl. 1-2.* 1959. - Lawalrée, Lambinon and Demaret, Marie-Anne Libert, botaniste, extrait de Marie-Anne Libert 1782-1865, Malmédy 1965, p. 115-126. - Leroy, J., Hautes Fagnes 1965(1): 85-87 (commémoration). - Marchal, E., Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 11: 3-15. 7 Nov 1872 (coll., Reliquiae Libertianae), also issued separately, *Reliquiae Libertianae*, Gand (Imprimerie C. Annoot-Braeckman) 1872, p. \[1\]-14, *copy*: BR. - Morren, Ch., Les femmes et les fleurs, discours prononcé le 11 mars 1838. Liège 1838, p. 34 (fide Morren 1868, p. vi). - Morren, Ed., Marie-Anne Libert de Malmédy, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Gand, 1868, 13 p. (bibl., portr.), reprinted from Belg. hort. 5: v-xv. 1868). - Roumeguère, C., Rev. mycol. ser. 2. 8: 7-24. 1 Jan 1880 (letters on *Pl. crypt.* and notes on the publication of the *Reliquiae*; on p. 15-24, *Revisio Reliquiae Libertianae* I); 3(11): 39-59, *pl. 19-20.* 1 Jul 1881 (series altera); \[with R. A. Saccardo:\] 5: 233-239, *pl. 39-41.* 1 Oct 1883 (series tertia); 6: 26-39. *pl. 42-46.* 1 Jan 1884 (series quarta). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 33. 1969 (exsicc), Bryologist 80: 512. 1977. - Thümen, F. v., Reliquiae Libertianae \[1883\], 7 p. (identif.). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 88. 1903. #### Composite works - (1) Lejeune, *Fl. environs Spa* 2: 272-285. 1815 (vascular cryptograms). (2) See Roumeguère, C., for *Reliquiae mycologicae libertianae*. #### Memorial publication *La Belgique horticole* vol. 5, 1868 (portr., obit. by Ed. Morren, bibl.; "sa vie et ses oeuvres."). #### Handwriting Lawalrée, Lambinon and Demaret, Marie-Anne Libert, botaniste, 1965 (see above), plate facing p. 13. #### Eponymy *Asterolibertia* Arnaud (1918); *Libertella* Desmazières (1830); *Libertia* Dumortier (1822, *nom. rej.*); *Libertia* K. P. J. Sprengel (1824, *nom. cons.*); *Libertia* Lejeune (1825); *Libertiella* Spegazzini & Roumeguère (1880); *Libertina* F. von Höhnel (1920); *Myxolibertella *F. von Höhnel (1903). ### Publications ##### n.4496. Mémoires sur des cryptogames **Title** *Mémoires sur des cryptogames* observées aux environs de Malmédy... Paris (au secrétariat de la Société Linnéenne,...) 1826. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mém. crypt.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1826 (in journal), p. \[1\]-7, *pl. 5* (uncol. copper engr.). *Copies*: BR, MICH. – Reprinted from Mém. Soc. Linn., Paris 5: 402-403, 404-406. 1827 (publ. Sep 1827, see MD p. 182). ##### n.4497. Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit **Title** *Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit* M. A. Libert,... fasciculus primus \[-quartus\]. Leodii \[Liège, Luik\] (Typis Jacobi Desoer, bibliopolae,...) 1830-1837. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. crypt. Arduenna*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Text accompanying the above-mentioned series of exsiccatae. *Copy*: BR (with mss.). *1*: 1830, p. \[1\]-8, \[1, ind.\]. *2*: 1832, p. \[i-iii\], \[1, ind.\]. *3*: 1834, p. \[i-iii\], \[i, ind.\]. *4*: 1837, p. \[i-iii\], \[1, ind.\]. *Ref*.: Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 33. 1969.