> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 415](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355502) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23266-1) LSID 23266-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66322) QID Q66322 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Menge, Franz Anton (1808-1880), German high school teacher, palaeontologist, arachnologist and botanist; studied at Bonn 1828-1832; high school teacher at Graudenz 1833-1836, and at the Petrischule, Danzig 1836-1877; specialist on amber fossils. **Abbreviated name**: *Menge* \[standard form in IPNI: *Menge*\] #### Herbarium and types Original collection at the Danziger Provinzialmuseum, now destroyed. Bryophytes at [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 271; Andrews p. 302; Barnhart 2: 475 (b. 15 Feb 1808, d. 27 Jan 1880); BM 3: 1286-1287; CSP 4: 342, 8: 380, 10: 774; Herder p. 186; Kew 3: 654; PR 6084 (ed. 1: 6779); Quenstedt p. 289; Rehder 1: 380; SBC p. 127 ("Menge"); TL-2/1: 2080. - Anon., Zool. Anz. 3: 120. 1880 (b. 10 Feb 1808, d. 27 Jan 1880). - Bonnet, P. N. L., Bibl. Araneorum 1: 35-36. 1945 (d. 18 Jan 1880, portr. on *pl. 5*). - Ohlert, B., Schrift. naturf. Ges. Danzig ser. 2. 5: xl-xlviii. 1881 (obit., b. 15 Feb 1808, d. 26 Jan 1880). - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 513. 1977 (musci WRSL). - Schumann, E., Gesch. naturf. Ges. Danzig 1743-1892, Danzig 1893, p. 62-63, 97-98. (Schr. naturf. Ges. Danzig ser. 2. 8(2): 62-63, 97-98). #### Composite works See TL-2/1: 2080, Goeppert et al., *Fl. Bernsteins* (extensive rev.: Behrens, Bot. Ccntralbl. 15: 17-21. 1883, Sterzel, ib. 29: 140-145. 1887). #### Eponymy *Mengea* J. C. Schauer (1843); *Mengea* H. Conwentz (1886). ### Publications ##### n.5828. Catalogus plantarum phanerogamicarum **Title** *Catalogus plantarum phanerogamicarum* regionis *grudenlinensis et gedanensis*... Grudentiae \[Graudenz\] (typis C. G. Röthe) 1839. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. grudent. gedan.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1839 (p. 4: Whitsun 1838), p. \[1\]-442. *Copy*. B. – Gedanum: Danzig, Gdánsk; Grudentum: Graudentium, Graudenz, Bromberg, Grudziadz; both cities now in Poland.