> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 767](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355854) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7029-1) LSID 7029-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466498) QID Q466498 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Nordmann, Alexander \[Davidovic\] von (1803-1866), Finnish botanist; Dr. phil. Turku 1827; high school teacher and director of the botanic garden at Odessa; professor of natural history (1849) and of zoology (1852) in Helsinki. **Abbreviated name**: *Nordm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Nordm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]]; further important sets at [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]] and [[Collection MW|MW]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 192; Backer p. 398; Barnhart 3: 12; BM 3: 1445; Collander hist. p. 20-22, 35, 104, 114; CSP 4: 640-641, 8: 515, 17: 559; Frank 3(Anh.): 72; IH 1(ed. 6): 362, 2: (in press); Jackson p. 414; Lasègue p. 341, 422, 503; LS 19080-19081; PR (alph.); Quenstedt p. 316; Rehder 5: 624; Saelan p. 346-347; TR 953-955; Urban-Berl. p. 379. - Anon., Bonplandia 6: 49. 1858 (cogn. Leopoldina: Rudolphi II); Flora 50: 15-16. 1867; Österr. bot. W. 1: 160. 1851 (resigns directorship Odessa botanical garden; returns to Helsinki. - Brandt, J. F., Verh. Russ.-k. mineral. Ges. St. Petersburg ser. 2. 6: 73-80. 1871 (critical remarks on Eichwald's (1870) version of *Rhytina borealis*, a sirenological quarrel). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 37, 1880 (coll. LE). - Carus, C. G., Leopoldina 5: 137. 1866 (d. 25 Jun 1866). - Carpenter, M. M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 74. 1965. - Eichwald, E. v., Verh. Russ.-k. mineral. Ges. St. Petersburg ser. 2. 5: 193-277. 1870 (b. 24 Mai 1803 at Ruotsinsalvui, an island off the Finnish coast; biogr., itin.). - Elfving, F., Acta Fauna Fl. fenn. 50: 224, 1921 (portr.). - Fischer, F. E. L., Bull. Cl. phys. Acad. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 1: 355, 357. 1843. - Gager, C. S., Brooklyn bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 193. 1938 (dir. Helsinki bot. gard. 1849-1857, 1863-1865). - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 277. 1977. - Herder, F. v., Bot. Centralbl. 58: 258, 261, 266, 388. 1894 (1930 pl. from Odessa at LE plus further Russian material). - Hjelt, O. E. A., Acta Soc. Sci. fenn. 9: 1-40. 1871 (biogr., bibl., d. 25 Jun 1866). - Hooker, J. D., *in* W.J. Hooker, London J. Bot. 6: 48. 1847. - Kukkonen, I., Herb. Christian Steven 75. 1971. - Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 37-92. 1886. - Nordmann, A., Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 38(1): 101-161. 1865 (biography of C. Steven containing info. on their correspondence and travelling together). - Radde, G., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Kaukasus 4, 16. 1899 (Veg. Erde 3). - Wittrock, A. v., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 108. 1903. - Zittel, K. A. von, Hist. geol. palaeont. 422. 1901. #### Eponymy *Nordmannia* Fischer et C. A. Meyer (1843); *Nordmannia* Ledebour ex Nordmann (1837).