> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 286](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355373) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6086-1) LSID 6086-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64016) QID Q64016 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Marcgrave, Georg \[Marggraf, Marcgraf, Marcgravius\] (1610-1644), German engineer and geographer with Maurits van Nassau in Brazil. **Abbreviated name**: *Marcgr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Marcgr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]]; ten specimens at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. For the fate of M's drawings see D. J. P. Whitehead (1976, 1979); see Andrade-Lima et al. (1977) for the identification of M's herbarium specimens and for the status of the Sloane mss. add. 1554 by Laet. #### Name Hantzsch (see below, p. 201) "Im Kirchenbuche von Liebstadt findet sich in dem Abschnitt "Teufflinge Anno 1610" folgender Eintrag: "Georgius, Georgii Marggravij tum temporis Schulmeisters alhier, Söhnlein, ward auf diese Welt geboren 20 septemb..." From this entry the correct family name should be Marggraf. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 20: 295-296; Barnhart 2: 447; BM 3: 1237; Dryander 1:257,2: 34; DSB 9: 122-123; Frank 3 (Anh.): 62; Hegi 7: 559; Herder p. 464; IH 2:501; JW 5: 246; Kew 3: 585; Langman p. 471; Lasègue p. 474, 505; Lenley p. 280; Moebius p. 367; NBG 33: 548; NI (alph.); PR (alph.); Rehder 5: 544; Tucker 1: 459. - Andrade-Lima, D. de et al., Bot. Tidsskr. 71: 121-160. 1977 (identification of M's herb. specimens at C and OXF). - Anon., Bonplandia 1: 134. 1853 (one volume of herb. specimens at C). - Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 353. 1969. - Darmstaedter, L., Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte 42: 649-654. 1928. - Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 13, 31, 101, 105, 183, 227, 363. 1970. - Fries, T. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 67. 1911. - Gudger, E. W., Pop. Sci. Monthly 81: 250-274. 1912, Zool. Ann., Würzburg 6(1): 1-31. 1914, Science ser. 2. 40: 507-509. 1914. - Hantzsch, V., Verh. kön. Sächs. Ges. Wiss. Leipzig, phil.-hist. Kl. 48: 199-227. 1896 (extensieve study); Ber. Verh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss. Leipzig 2-3: 199-227. 1897. - Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 34. 1916. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 239. 1884. - Jourdan, A.J. L., Dic. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 193-194. 1824. - Lichtenstein, Abh. kön. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. physik. Kl. 1814/5: 201-222. 1818, 1817: 155-178. 1819, 1820/2: 237-254, 267-288. 1822, 1826: 49-65. 1829 (interpr. orig. drawings). - Macbryde, B., Taxon 19: 349-350. 1970. - Martius, C. F. P. v., Versuch eines Commentars über die Pflanzen in den Werken von Marcgrave und Piso über Brasilien. München 1853 (see no. 5546); Abh. math.-phys. Cl. k. Bayer. Akad.Wiss. 7(1): 179-238. 1853 (commentary on cryptogams); Engl. transl. by Wallich, *in* W.J. Hooker, J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 161-168, 200-207, 271-276. 1853. - Merrill, E. D., Chron. bot. 14(5/6): 228, 322, 334. 1954. - Moreira, J., Revista Museo Paulista 14: 649-673. 1926. - Pickel, B. J., Revista Fl. med. 16(6): 211-280. 1949 (see also under Piso). - Poiret, J. L. M., *in* Lamarck, J. B., Encycl. méth., Bot. 748. 1808. - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 53-56. 1906 (biogr. itin., bibl.). - Wallich, N., Bonplandia 1(14): 134. 1853 (herb. at C), *apud* C. F. P. v. Martius, *in* Hooker, W. J., J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 167-168. 1853. - Whitehead, D. J. P., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 7: 409-422. 1976 (drawings), Newsletter Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1: 6-7. 1979, 4: 4-5. 1979. (Marcgrave drawings from former Royal Library are at the Jagiellon Library, Krakow), also Taxon 28: 552. 1979; J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 9(3): 301-314. 1979 (biogr., further refs.). - Zaunick, R., Zool. Ann., Würzburg 7(2): 193-195. 1919 (repr. p. 1-3). #### Composite works See under G. Piso. #### Eponymy *Marcgravia* Linnaeus (1753).