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### Author
Lorek, Christian Gottlieb (1788-1871), German botanist and high school teacher at Königsberg; Dr. phil. Königsberg 1812; taught at the Burgschule 1811-1850, retired because of increasing loss of eye-sight.
**Abbreviated name**: *Lorek* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lorek*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Originally at [[Collection KBG|KBG]]; now destroyed. Caspary mentions a manuscript with 90 figures of fungi at the university library, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, USSR) (see also E. Meyer, Preuss. Provincial-Blätter 10, 1833), identified by E. Fries.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 402; Herder p. 185; Jackson p. 309; Kew 3: 500; NI 1231; PR 5602; Rehder 5: 522; Tucker 1:440.
- Caspary, R., Lebensbeschr. ost.-westpreuss.Bot., Festschr. Preuss. bot. Ver. 241-246. 1912. (bibl.; many details).
- Trunz, H., Das Ostpreussenblatt 15(35): 11. 29 Aug 1964.
### Publications
##### n.4983. Flora prussica
**Title**
*Flora prussica*, Abbildungen sämtlicher, bis jetzt aufgefundener Pflanzen Preussens ... Königsberg (zu haben bei dem Verfasser und in der Unzerschen Buchhandlung) 1826 \[-1830\].
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. pruss.*
**Notes**
*Ed. 1*: 1826-1830, in 12 Hefte with *pl. 1-210.* With text: *Zur Flora prussica* von Dr. C. G. Lorek-Königsberg, Königsberg (Gedruckt in der Schuhzschen Buchdruckerei) 1830, 51 p.
*Copy*: B-S.
*Nachtrag*: 1837 (Heft 13), *pl. 211-230.*
*Ed. 2*: 1837-1838, 2 vols. (in one), *229* partly col. plates and *1* uncol. pl. *Text*: *Zur Flora prussica*... 2. Ausgabe. Königsberg (Gedruckt bei C. J. Dalkowski) 1838, 54 p.
*Ed. 3*: 1846-1848, *Text* p. \[i\], \[1\]-57. *Zur Flora prussica*... Königsberg 1846. Oct., *Plates 1-241 *published in various Hefte, 1846-1848 (all newly engraved on stone). "Dritte verbesserte und vermehrte Ausgabe. "Königsberg (Verlag der Universitäts-Buchhandlung) 1848. Qu. *Copies*: B, G, L, MO, NY.
*Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, Bot. Zeit. 4: 861-862. 1846, 16: 216. 1858 (re-issue).