> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 141](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355228) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5705-1) LSID 5705-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1697959) QID Q1697959 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Loesel, Johannes \[Loeselius\] (1607-1655), German botanist and physician; Dr. phil. Königsberg 1632; Dr. med. Leiden 1639, professor of medicine at Königsberg University 1639-1655. **Abbreviated name**: *Loesel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Loesel*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Manuscripts lost. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 314, Ainsworth p. 225, 310; Backer p. 334; Barnhart 2: 397; BM 3: 463; De Toni 1: lxxix; Dryander 3: 171; Frank 3(Anh.): 60; GR p. 106; Hegi 2: 393, 4(1): 174, 6(1): 25; Herder p. 185; Jackson p. 309; NI 122; Plesch p. 315; PR 5575-5576 (ed. 1: 6220-6222); Rehder 1: 372; Sotheby 473; Tucker 1: 438. - Caspary, R., Lebensbeschr. ost.-westpreuss. Bot. 237-241. 1912 (bibl.). - Krollmann, Chr., Altpreuss. Biogr. 1: 404. 1941 (n.v., fide NI). - Lorek, C. G., Preuss. bot. 2-3. 1849. - O., Dict. sci. med., Biogr. méd. 6: 94-95. 1824. #### Eponymy *Loeselia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.4932. Plantas in Borussia sponte nascentes **Title** *Plantas in Borussia sponte nascentes* e manuscriptis parentis mei divulgo Johannes Loeselius, Johannis filius. (n.v.). **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Borussia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1654. – Published for his father by Joh. Loesel fil., born 21 Sep 1641. The text was later used for Gottsched's edition of the Flora prussica (see below). ##### n.4933. Flora prussica **Title** *Flora prussica*, sive plantae in regno Prussiae sponte nascentes. Quarum catalogum & nomina Johannes Loeselius... olim disseruit, nunc additis nitidissimis iconibus rariorum, partim ab aliis nondum delineatarum plerarumque Prussiae propriarum & inquilinarum plantarum, earumdemque accuratâ descriptione, nec non adjectis synonymiis veterum botanicorum, interspersisque observationibus historico-philogico-criticis & medicopracticis noviter efflorescentes, curante Johanne Gottsched,... Regiomonti \[Königsberg\] anno mdcciii. Sumptibus typographiae Georgianae. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. pruss.* **Notes** *Editor*: Johann Gottsched (1668-1704) who received the manuscript and plates from Loesel's estate through Dietrich Hessen, son-in-law of Loesel. *Publ*.: 1703 (p. viii: 1 Oct 1703), front., p. \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-294, \[1-80, index\], *83 pl*. numbered *1-85*, but nos. 46/47 and 48/49 combined; uncol. *Copies*: MO, NY, U. *Supplement*: 1726, see Andreas Helwing.