> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 48](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355097) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5617-1) LSID 5617-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75237) QID Q75237 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Lindheimer, Ferdinand Jacob (1801-1879), German botanist; in 1834 as political refugee to the United States; settled in 1840 at New-Braunfels, Texas, in which state he collected extensively. **Abbreviated name**: *Lindh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lindh.*\] #### Herbarium and types His collections from Texas (1842-1851), partly distributed as *Flora texana exsiccata*, (fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-754, fasc. 5, ca 630 nos.) in many herbaria. An important set is at [[Collection GH|GH]], the basis for Engelmann and Gray's *Plantae lindheimerianae* (see no. 1690); important scts at [[Collection BAYLU|BAYLU]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection SMU|SMU]], [[Collection YU|YU]]. Ref.: Gillett J. M. and M. J. Shchepanek, Taxon 26(4): 429-434. 1977 (isotypes at [[Collection CAN|CAN]]; descr. of *Fl. tex. exsicc.*). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 330; Barnhart 2: 386; BM 3: 1119, 7:634; Bossert p. 239 (b. 21 Mai 1801, d. 2 Dec 1879); Clokie p. 200; CSP 10: 603; DAB (by S. W. Geiser); Hortus 3: 1198 ("Lindh."); IH 1 (ed. 6): 361, 2: 446; Jackson p. 365; Lasègue p. 467, 505 574; ME 2: 482, 491, 3: 445; Pennell p. 612; PR (alph.); Rehder 5: 513; TL-2/1: 1690, see Durand, E. M. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1881: 39; Bot. Zeit. 38: 240. 2 Apr 1880; J. Bot. 18: 96. 1880; Nat. Nov. 2: 31. 1880 (d.). - Blankinship, J. W., 18th. Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 123, 127-141. 1907 (portr.). - Blum, Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. Wiss. Abh. 1901: 18-19. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie p. 428. 1880. - Elkinton, American-German Rev., Dec 1945: 17-19 (portr.), Dec 1946: 17-18, 30. - Geiser, G. W., Southwest Rev. 15(2): 245-266. 1930 (portr.); Bios 5: 141-152. 1934; Naturalists of the Frontier 132-147, 277, 293 \[index\]. 1948. - Gray, J. L., Letters A. Gray 291, 298, 340, 343, 391. 1893. - Hitchcock, A. S. & A. Chase, Man. grass. U.S. 987. 1951 (epon.). - King, I. M., John O. Meusebach, Univ. Texas Press, Austin, London, s.d., xii, 192 p. - Rodgers, A. D., William Starling Sullivant 189, 281. 1940; John Torrey 344 \[index\]. 1942. - Sargent, C. S., Silva 1: 74. 1891. - Winkler, C. H., Bull. Univ. Texas 18: 6-9. 1915 (*Fl. tex. exs.*). #### Note Lindheimer settled at the town of New Braunfels, Texas, laid out in March 1845 by Prince Carl Solms Braunfels, thirty miles north of San Antonio, on the initiative of the German immigration company (Verein zum Schutze deutscher Auswanderer in Texas). A picture of Lindheimers "Cabin on the Comal" at New Braunfels and much further information is given e.g. by Elkinton (1945). Lindheimer was editor of the *New Braunsfelser Zeitung* for nearly twenty years. See also Geiser (1948). #### Composite works *Aufsätze und Abhandlungen* von Ferdinand Lindheimer in Texas. Herausgegeben von einem seiner Schüler. Frankfurt (Theodor Wentz) 1879, iv, 176 p. *Copy*: MO. #### Eponymy *Lindheimera* A. Gray & G. Engelmann (1847).