> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 851](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355938) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7178-1) LSID 7178-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55069930) QID Q55069930 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Osbeck, Pehr (1723-1805), Swedish clergyman and botanist; chaplain with the Svenska Ostindiska Kompaniet, on the "Prins Carl" to the East, 1750-1752; ultimately village clergyman in Halland; Dr. theol. 1778. **Abbreviated name**: *Osbeck* \[standard form in IPNI: *Osbeck*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection S|S]] (in part), [[Collection SBT|SBT]] (id.); material from the Prins Carl voyage (1750-1852) at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection E|E]] (herb. Giseke), [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]. See Hansen & Fox Maule (1973). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 412; Barnhart 3: 33, BM 3: 1480; Bossert p. 295; Bret. p. 58; Colmeiro 1: cxci; CSP 4: 706; Dryander 3: 239-240, 303, 352, 625, 637; Frank 3(Anh.): 73; Hegi 5(2): 795; Hortus 3: 1201 ("Osbeck"); Kew 4: 197; KR p. 565-566 (b. 9 Mai 1723, d. 23 Dec 1805); Lasègue p. 357, 359, 434, 503; Lenley p. 318; LS 19578-19579; MW p. 370-371; PR 6865 (ed. 1: 7664); Rehder 5: 637; SK 1: 395, 5: cccviii-cccix, 8: lxxiii; SO 872, 3599-3604; TL-2/see Alströmer, C., Bergius, P. J.; Tucker 1: 532; Zander ed. 10, p. 698, ed. 11, p. 796. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1845: 104 (ref. to entry Biogr. lex. Sv. män, vol. 10). - Bernardi, L., Mus. Genève 198: 11. 1979. - Blunt, W., The compleat natural. 185. 1971. - Bretschneider, E., Early European researchers into the flora of China 88-115. 1881 (list of 319 Chinese pl. known to L., incl. those coll. by Osbeck). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 438. 1880 (coll. S). - Dandy, J. E., Regn. Veg. 51: 17. 1967 (generic names in *Dagbok*). - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 243, 270, 293, 296, 300, 325. 1969. - Fox Maule, A. & C. Hansen, Sv. Linnésällsk. Årsskr. 1972-74: 75-145. 1978. (corr. Linnaeus-Osbeck 1750-1753, mentioning i.a. plant collected by O in China and used for Sp. Pl.). - Fries, Th. M., Brefskrifv. Linné 1(2): 172, 193, 208, 210, 345. 1908; 1(4): 137, 209, 252, 319. 1910,; 1(5): 10, 175, 198. 1911; 1(7): 35. 1917. - Fries, R. E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 28. 1950. - Hansen, C., Taxon 21(5/6): 653-657. 1972 (*Osbeckia*). - Hansen, C. & A. Fox Maule, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 67: 189-212. *pl. 1-6.* 1973 (O's collections and L's Species plantarum; for text of letters see Fox Maule & Hansen 1978). - Hulth, J. M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(8): 166, 167, 171, 172. 1922. - Jackson, B. D., Index to the Linnean herbarium 16. 1912; Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 19. 1922. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 300, 469. 1884. - Kukkonen, I., Herb. Chr. Steven 76. 1971. - Löwegren, Y., Naturalienkabinett i Sverige 359-360. 1952 (on his insect coll.). - Makino, T., J. Jap. Bot. 6(11): *pl. 1929* (reproduction of *pl. 2* of vol. 1 of the Voy. China, 1771). - Merrill, E. D., Amer. J. Bot. 3: 571-588. 1916 (on O's *Dagbok*). - Naudin, C. V., Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 3. 14: 118. 1850 (epon.). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 303-304. 1969. - Peterson, B., Medd. Göteb. bot. Trädgård 18: 15-23. 1949. - Peterson, G. & B., Varb°ergs Museum årsbok 1967: 1-22. (account of Osbeck's trip to Halland-Bohuslän; portr.). - Roberts, W., Gard. Chron. ser.3. 23: 241. 1898 (Osbeck's "China"). - Scheutz, Bot. Not. 1863: 71. - Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 149. 1971; *in* Daniels, G. S. & Stafleu, F. A., Taxon 25: 232. 1 Jun 1976 (portr.). #### Handwriting Medd. Göteb. bot. Trädgård 18: 16. 1919; Varbergs Museum Årsbok 1967: 5; Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 67: *pl. 6.* 1973. #### Eponymy *Osbecka*Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Osbeckia* Linnaeus (1753); *Osbekia*K. P. J. Sprengel (1825, *orth. var.*); *Osbeckiastrum* Naudin (1850). ### Publications ##### n.7121. Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk resa **Title** *Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk resa*åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning m.m.... Iämte 12 tabeller och afledne skepps-predikanten Toréns Bref. Stockholm (trycks hos Lor. Ludv. Grefing,...) 1757. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Dagb. Ostind. resa*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1757 (p. viii: 25 Apr 1757), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-376, \[p. 1-16, index\], *pl. 1-12* (uncol. copp.). *Copies*: NY; IDC 247. – Contains also a text on a trip to Suratte by Olof Torén (1723-1753). For translations see below (see also SO 3599-3604). For generic names see Dandy (1967). ##### n.7122. Reise nach Ostindien und China **Title** Herrn Peter Osbeck... *Reise nach Ostindien und China*. Nebst D. Toreens Briefe nach Suratte und C. G. Ekebergs Nachricht von der Landwirthschaft der Chineser. Aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt von J. G. Georgi... Rostock (Verlegts Johann Christian Koppe) 1765. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reise Ostindien*. **Notes** *Translator*: Johan Gottlieb Georgi (1729-1802). *Publ*.: 1765 (p. xviii: 25 Sep 1764), p. \[i\*-vi\*\], \[i\]-xxiv, \[xxv-xxvi\], \[1\]-552, \[index 1-26\], *pl. 1-13* (uncol. copp.). *Copy*: NY. – The editor, J. C. D. Schreber, mentions in the preface that it contains various new corrigenda and addenda by Osbeck. ##### n.7123. A voyage to China and the East Indies **Title** *A voyage to China and the East Indies*, by Peter Osbeck,... together with a voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen,... and an account of the Chinese husbandry by captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster,... to which are added a faunula and flora sinensis... London (printed for Benjamin White,...) 1771. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Voy. China*. **Notes** *Translator*: Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). *1*: 1771 (p. v: 1 Dec 1770), p. \[i\]-xx, 1-396, *pl. 1-13.* *2*: 1771, p. \[i\], 1-367, \[1-31, index; 32, err.\]. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. – The translation is based on the German version of 1765; it is referred to in Index Kewensis as "Osbeck iter." For the original publication of new names see the Swedish original of 1757.