> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 210](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265407) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107542) QID Q107542 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Blau, \[Ernst\] Otto \[Friedrich Hermann\] (1828-1879), German (Nordhausen) diplomat and botanist, studied oriental languages at the University of Halle and Leipzig 1848-1851, entered the foreign service of Prussia 1852, Dr. phil. Halle 1855, stationed at the Constantinople embassy, later at consulates in Trapezunt and Sarajevo, travelled in Turkey and Northern Persia, collected plants 1868-1872, consul at Sarajevo for Bosnia and Herzegowina 1864-1870, 1870-1872 first consul, from 1872 consul at Odessa. **Abbreviated name**: *O. Blau* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]](2000) and [[Collection STR|STR]], also [[Collection GLM|GLM]] (coll. Crimea). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 257; IH 2: 79; Rehder 1: 447; Tucker 1: 87; Urban-Berl. p. 330. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 26(Bibl.): 91. 1879 (d. 26 Feb 1879). - Ascherson, P., Bot. Zeit. 37(16): 260-261. 18 Apr 1879 (b. 21 Apr 1828; obit.). - Beck, G., Veget.-Verhältn. Illyr. Länd. 15-16. 1901 (Veg. Erde 4; itin.). - Blau, P., Leben und Wirkungen eines Auslandsdeutschen... Erinnerungen an Dr. Otto Blau, Leipzig 1928, 166 p. (bot. activity on p. 146-158 by K. Maly). - Glotz, E., Abh. Ber. Naturk.-Mus. Görlitz 37(1): 30. 1961 (Crimea coll. at GLM). - Persch, S., letter to D.K. Ferguson, Antwerp. 15 Apr 1975 (copy in TL-2/files, info. on his diplomatic career). ### Publications ##### n.21.527. Reisen in Bosnien und der Hertzegowina **Title** *Reisen in Bosnien und der Hertzegowina*. Topographische und pflanzengeographische Aufzeichnungen... Berlin (Verlag von Dietrich Reimer) 1877. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reisen Bosn. Hertzeg.* **Notes** *Co-author*: H. Kiepert (text on p. 186-232) on cartography and statistics. *Publ*.: 1877, frontisp., p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix\], \[1\]-231, \[232\], 1 unnumbered folded uncol. map. *Copy*: B-S.