> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 292](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189763) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7750-1) LSID 7750-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595496) QID Q595496 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Plaz, Anton Wilhelm (1708-1784), German (Saxonian) botanist; Dr. med. Halle 1728; extraord. professor of botany Leipzig 1733, ord. id. 1749; later professor of physiology and therapeutics; dean of the medical faculty from 1773. **Abbreviated name**: *Plaz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Plaz*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 92 (b. 2 Jan 1708); BM 4: 1584; Dryander 3: 250, 380, 381, 383, 385, 386, 397, 427, 564, 610; Herder p. 471; Kew 4: 323; LS 20862; PR 7183-7194 (b. 1706) (ed. 1: 8052-8064); Rehder 5: 678; TL-1/980. #### Biofile - Anon., Comm. hebd. Sci. nat. med., Leipzig, 26: 546-555. 1784 (obit.). - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 327. 1864. - Jourdan, A. J.L., Dict. sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 439-442. 1824. - Meusel, J.G., Lex. teut. Schriftst. 10: 453-456. 1810 (bibl.). - Rothmaler, W., Rep. spec. nov. 53(1): 36. 1944. - Zuchold, E.A., Jahresb. naturf. Ver. Halle 5: 46. 1853. #### Eponymy *Plazia* Ruiz et Pavon (1794) commemorates Juan Plaza, a Spanish botanist and medical doctor. ### Publications ##### n.8049. De plantarum plethora **Title** *De plantarum plethora* disserit et ad adveniendam orationem aditialem, qua professons physiologiae ordinarii munus d. x. oct. mdccliv. hora ix. in auditorio philosophorum auspicabitur, invitat D. Antonius Guilielmus Plaz,... \[Lipsiae \[Leipzig\] (ex officina Langenhemiana) 1754\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. pleth.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Oct 1754 (t.p.), p. \[i\]-xxxiii. *Copy*: NY. ##### n.8050. de Saccharo **Title** Ordinis medicorum in Academia lipsica h.t. procancellarius d. Andonius Guilielmus Plaz... panegyrin medicam ad d. xviii Febr. mdcclxiii indicit *de Saccharo* nonnulla praefatus. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *De Saccharo*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 18 Feb 1763 (NZGS 14 Apr 1763), p. \[i\]-xvi. *Copy*: Edinburgh Univ. Libr. ##### n.8051. de plantarum sub diverso coelo nascentium cultura **Title** Ordinis medicorum in Academia lipsica h.t. procancellarius d. Antonius Guilielmus Plaz... panegyrin medicam ad d. vi. julii a.r.g. mdcclxiv. Indicit *de plantarum sub diverso coelo nascentium cultura* praefatus \[Leipzig 1764\] Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *De pl. cult.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 6 Jul 1764, p. \[i\]-xii. Copy: Edinburgh Univ. Libr.