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### Author
Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815), Holstein-born Danish botanist; studied in Göttingen 1757-1761; with Forsskål on a Danish expedition to Arabia 1761-1763, India, Persia and Turkey 1763-1767; in Copenhagen until 1778; subsequently administrator at Ditmarsken, ultimately at Melsdorf.
**Abbreviated name**: *Niebuhr* \[standard form in IPNI: *Niebuhr*\]
#### Herbarium and types
The plants on the Expedition to Arabia were collected by Forsskål (q.v.) and are at [[Collection C|C]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 395; Barnhart 3: 4; BM 3: 1433; Bossert p. 286; CSP 4: 620; DSB 10: 117; Herder p. 55; KR p. 539; Lasègue p. 426; NI (alph.); PR (ed. 1: 7496); Rehder 5: 619; TL-1/370-371; TL-2/1819-1820; Tucker 1: 519.
- Blatter, E., Rec. bot. Surv. India 8: 460-461. 1933.
- Christensen, C., Naturforskeren Pehr Forsskål 121-122, 145-146, 162-163. 1918 (letters N. to Forsskål.); Danske bot. hist. 1: 120, 122, 152. 1924, 2: 91-92. 1924.
- Embacher, F., Lexikon Reisen 217. 1882.
- Fischer-Benzon, R. J. D. von, *in* P. Prahl, Krit. Fl. Schleswig-Holst. 2: 39-40. 1890.
- Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 270. 1908.
- Hansen, T., Det lykkelige Arabien, en dansk ekspedition 1761-1767. Gyldendal, Kjøbnhavn 1962, re-issued 1976, 381 p.
- Hornemann, J., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 573-574. 1837.
- Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 427 \[index\]. 1916.
- Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 300. 1884.
- Niebuhr, B. G., Kieler Blätter 3: 1-86. 1816 (fide Spjeldnaes in DSB); Beschreibung von Arabien, Kopenhagen 1772 (for translations of and additional travelogues by N. see BM 3: 1433); Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien, Kopenhagen 1774-1778, Hamburg 1837, 3 vols., reprint with introduction by D. Henze, Graz 1968, ISBN 3-201-00201-1; Beschreibung von Arabien, Kopenhagen 1772, reprint with introduction by D. Henze, Graz, 1969, ISBN 3-201-00200-3.
- Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 286-287. 1863 (b. 17 Mar 1733, d. 26 Apr 1815).
- Poiret, J. L. M., Enc. méth., Bot. 8: 742. 1808.
- Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 151. 1971.
- Warming, E., Bot. Tidskr. 12: 73. 1880.
- Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 103. 1903.
#### Composite works
Nicbuhr edited P. Forsskål's *Flora aegyptiaco-arabica* (TL-2/1819) and *Icones rerum naturalium*(TL-2/1820).
#### Eponymy
*Niebuhria*A. P. de Candolle (1824), *Niebuhria*Necker ex J. Britton (1901) and *Niebuhria*Scopoli (1777) were probably all named for this author.