> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 438](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355525) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23312-1) LSID 23312-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61546) QID Q61546 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Meyen, Franz Julius Ferdinand (1804-1840), Prussian physician and botanist; Dr. med. Berlin 1826; travelled around the world with W. Wendt on the Prinzess Luise (1830-1832); Dr. phil. h.c. Bonn 1834; professor of botany at the University of Berlin. **Abbreviated name**: *Meyen* \[standard form in IPNI: *Meyen*\] #### Herbarium and types Meyen's herbarium, mainly consisting of the authentic material of his trip around the world, was acquired by [[Collection B|B]] in 1842. The herbarium consisted of 2188 specimens, said by Urban to represent 1353 species. This herbarium now being lost, the most important extant sets of Meyen specimens seem to be at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection L|L]]; the important set at [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]] is also lost. Some bryophytes are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Note "Zijn arbeid is, ook onder ons, op hoogen prys gesteld. Zijne werkzaamheid en echt Duitsche vlijt grensden schier aan het onmogelijke en ongeloofelijke. Zijn aanzijn was een merkwaardig verschijnsel, een voorbeeld ter navolging en ter waarschuwing" (De Vriese). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 21: 549-553; AG 2(2): 309; Ainsworth p. 314, 345; Backer p. 368; Barnhart 2: 482; BM 3: 1297, 7: 833; Bossert p. 265; Bret. p. 302; Cesati p. 266; CSP 4: 357-359, 8: 391; De Toni 1: lxxxiv; DSB 9: 344-345 (by H. Querner); Frank 3(Anh.): 64; GR p. 31-32, cat. p. 68; Hawksworth p. 184; Herder p. 466; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Meyen"); IF p. 719; IH 2: 532; Jackson p. 68, 69, 102, 193, 222, 224, 503; Kew 3: 669-670; KR p. 502; Langman p. 502; Lasègue p. 384, 502, 521; LS 17758-17765; Moebius p. 453 \[index\]; MW p. 319; NI 1352-1353; Nordstedt p. 23; PR 6132-6143 (ed. 1: 6834-6849); Ratzeburg p. 352-356; Rehder p. 568-569; RS p. 118; SBC p. 127 ("Meyen"); SK 1: 358; Stevenson p. 1250; TL-1/833; Tl-2/1: see Grisebach, A. H. R.; Tucker 1: 482; Urban-Berl. p. 267, 271, 279, 289, 308, 374; Zander ed. 10, p. 692, ed. 11, p. 789 (b. 28 Jun 1804, d. 2 Sep 1840). - Anon., Bot. Not. 1840: 211. (d. 1 Sep 1836); Flora 23: 544. 1840 (d. 1/2 Sep 1840). - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 206. 1882. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 116. 1969. - Forbes, R. J., ed., Martinus van Marum 1: 330. 1969, 3: 32. 1971. - Herrera, F. L., Estud. Fl. Cuzco 9. 1930. - Hoffman, P. et al., Wiss. Z. Humb. Univ. Berlin, Math.-Nat. 14: 804. 1965. - Howell, J. T., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 96-97. 1953 (pl. CAS). - Kalkman, C. & P. Smit. eds., Blumea 25: 66. 1979. - Lloyd, F. E., Carniv. pl. 351 \[index\]. 1942. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 312 \[index\]. 1973 (portr.). - Merrill, E. D., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30: 211. 1947. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 168. 1904 (Bryoph. BM). - Nees von Esenbeck, C. G., Letters to Miquel, Utrecht, of 24 Apr 1843 (announces "Meyen's Nachlass"), 8 Mai 1943 (vol. 19 suppl. 1 of Nova Acta not yet out), 23 Mar 1844 (sends 19 suppl. 1 "verspätet"... "überhäuft") (letters at U). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 282. 1969. - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 133. 1858, 3: 907. 1898 (b. 28 Jun 1804, d. 2 Sep 1840). - Ratzeburg, J. T. C., Nova Acta Acad. Leop. 19: xii-xxxii. 1843 (bibl.), also in Meyen, J. F. J., Reise um die Erde 4: xiii-xxxii. 1843 (biogr., d. 1/2 Sep 1840; bibl.). - Reiche, K., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Chile 11-12. 1907. - Sachs, J., Gesch. Bot. 308-315. 1875; Hist. botanique 583 \[index\]. 1892. - Schmid, G., Chamisso als Naturforscher 1942, p. 170, nos. 248, 264. - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 61-63. 1906 (biogr., itin., biogr. refs.; b. 28 Jun 1804, d. 2 Sep 1840). - Vriese, W. H. de, Herinneringen aan Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen. Amsterdam 1840, 38 p., also Tydschr. Geneesk. Physiol. 8(2): 3-38. 1841. - Weberbauer, A., Pfl.-Welt peruan. Anden 9-10. 1911 (Veg. Erde 12). - Whetzel, H. H., Hist. phytopath. 38. 1918 (portr.). - Wood, R. D., Monogr. Charac. 1: 826. 1965. #### Note Meyen was a Baltic German; he was born in Tilsit, Eastern Prussia (now Sovetsk, USSR) and educated in Tilsit, Memel and Berlin. After practicing as physician in the Charité hospital of Berlin 1826/27, he served as military physician in Köln, Bonn, Potsdam and Berlin before going on the voyage around the world on the *Prinzessin Luise* as ship's physician. A good contemporary account is given by Ratzeburg (1843). #### Eponymy *Meyenia* C. G. D. Nees (1832); *Meyenia* Backeberg (1931). *Note*: *Meyenites* Unger (1842) and *Meyenia* Schlechtendal (1833), probably also commemorate Meyen but the authors give no derivation. ### Publications ##### n.5894. Grundriss der Pflanzengeographie **Title** *Grundriss der Pflanzengeographie* mit ausführlichen Untersuchungen über das Vaterland, den Anbau und den Nutzen der vorzüglichsten Culturpflanzen, welche den Wohlstand der Völker begründen... Berlin (Maude und Spenersche Buchhandlung (S. J. Joseephy)). 1836. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Grundr. Pfl.-Geogr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1836, p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-478. *Copy*: MO. *English*: 1846, p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-422. *Copies*: MO, US. – "*Outlines of the geography of plants*: with particular enquiries concerning the native country, the culture, and the uses of the principal cultivated plants on which the prosperity of nations is based..." translated by Margaret Johnston. London (printed for the Ray Society) 1846. Oct. *Swedish*: 1841, viii, 308 and 127 p., n.v., see KR (p. 702) "*Utkast till växt-geografien*...", translation by Gustaf Torssell (1811-1849). ##### n.5895. Observationes botanicas **Title** F. J. F. Meyenii *Observationes botanicas* in itinere circum terram institutas. Opus posthumum, sociorum Academiae curis suppletum. Cum tabulis xiii. Vratislaviae et Bonnae \[Breslau and Bonn\] 1843. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Observ. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov Acta Leopoldina 17, suppl. 2 (is at the same time vol. 19, suppl. 1); counts as Theil 4 of *Reise um die Erde* (see e.g. BM 3: 1297). *Date*: Dec 1843 (forwarded from Breslau to Nees on 13 Dec 1843 (PAW); Nees sent a copy to Miquel on 23 Mar 1844 with excuses for the delay), p. \[xiii\]-xxxii (Meyen's Lebenslauf, by J. T. C. Ratzeburg), p. \[ix\]-xxxii, \[1\]-512, *pl. 1-13* (partly col. and uncol. liths.). *Copies*: FI, NY, U, USDA; IDC 6064/5227. – German title: *Beiträge zur Botanik* gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde..." *Collaborators*: Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Flotow (1788-1856), lichenes (with Meyen); Ignaz Goldmann (1810-1848), filices; Carl Moritz Gottsche (1808-1892), Carl Johann Lindeberg (1815-1900) and Nees von Esenbeck, Hepaticae; August Heinrich Rudolph Grisebach (1814-1879), Gentianaceae; Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805-1860) fungi; Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858); Johann Conrad Schauer (1813-1848), Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae; Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816-1853), Compositae, e.a.; Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel (1812-1841), Leguminosae. *Additional* botanical information was contained in footnotes of parts 1 and 2 of Meyen's *Reise um die Erde*, Berlin 1834, 1835 (Theil 1: 25-31 Mai 1834, Theil 2: 18-23 Aug 1834). Theil 3 contained zoology. Theil 4 is the above botanical treatment. *Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Zeit. 2: 793. 1844.