> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 213](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189684) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7606-1) LSID 7606-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522916) QID Q21522916 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Petzholdt, Georg Paul Alexander (1810-1889), German (Saxonian) botanist, published on palaeobotany, agriculture and peat research; originally physician at Dresden; from 1846 professor of agronomy and technology at Dorpat (Tartu); later in retirement at Freiburg i. Br. **Abbreviated name**: *Petzh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Petzh.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TU|TU]]. – Some letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 312; Barnhart 3: 77; BM 4: 1559; CSP 4: 863, 8: 608, 11: 1, 12: 572-573; Herder p. 36, 56, 352, 393; Jackson p. 180; PR ed. 1: 7960-7963; Quenstedt p. 336; TR 1076. #### Biofile - Anon., Flora 29: 656. 1846 (accepts app. Dorpat as prof. of agricultural chemistry "mit dem Prädicate Hofrath"); Österr. bot. W. 2: 54. 1852. - Kusnezow, Bot. Centralbl. 68: 258. 1896 (pl. at TW). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-litt. Handwörterbuch 2: 420-421. 1863, 3: 1031. 1898 (b. 29 Jan 1810, d. 23 Apr 1889; bibl., biogr. refs.). #### Eponymy *Petzholdtia* Unger (1842). ### Publications ##### n.7798. De Balano et Calamosyringe **Title** *De Balano et Calamosyringe*. Additamenta ad Saxoniae palaeologiam duo... Dresdae \[Dresden\] et Lipsiae \[Leipzig\] (prostat in libraria Arnoldia) 1841. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *De Balano*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1841 (p. 4: Cal. Nov 1841), p. \[1\]-34, \[1, expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-2* (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: PH. ##### n.7799. Ueber Calamiten und Steinkohlenbildung **Title** *Ueber Calamiten und Steinkohlenbildung*... Dresden und Leipzig (in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung) 1841. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1841 (Geol. Soc. London rd. 24 Nov 1841), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-68, *pl. 1-8* (uncol., 1-6 liths., 7-8 copp.). *Copy*: NY. ##### n.7800. Zur Naturgeschichte der Torfmoore **Title** *Zur Naturgeschichte der Torfmoore* (zweiter Beitrag)... Dorpat (Druyck von Heinrich Laakmann) 1862. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1862, p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: MO. – Reprinted and to be cited from Arch. Naturk. Liv-, Est– und Kurlands 3: 75-104. 1862. *Erster Beitrag*: ib. : 1-28. 1861 ("Chemische Untersuchung des Torflagers von Awandus,...").