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### 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.