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### Author
Plenck, Joseph Jacob von \[Plenk\] (1738-1807), Austrian botanist, military physician, teacher at the military medical academy of Vienna.
**Abbreviated name**: *Plenck* \[standard form in IPNI: *Plenck*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 7: 240; Barnhart 3: 92; Blunt p. 158; BM 4: 1585; Bossert p. 312 (b. 28 Nov 1738, d. 24 Aug 1807); DU 225; GF p. 70; Hortus 3: 1201; Herder p. 91, 118, 132, 410; Jackson p. 200; Kew 4: 324; Langman p. 587; Lasègue p. 540; LS 20864; NI 1536; Plesch p. 364 (collation); PR 7199-7204 (ed. 1: 8069-8074); Rehder 5: 678; SO 724a, 759; Sotheby 605; TL-1/981; Tucker 1: 560, 779; Zander ed. 10, p. 702, ed. 11, p. 801 (b. 28 Nov 1738, d. 24 Aug 1807).
#### Biofile
- Anon., Portraiten-Gallerie berühmter Aertzte und Naturforscher des Österreichischen Kaiserthumes *pl. 25.* 1838 (portr.).
- Neilreich, A., Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 5(Abh.): 34, 44, 48. 1855.
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 472. 1858.
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 4: 446. 1938.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 84. 1903.
#### Eponymy
*Austroplenckia* Lundell (1939); *Plenckia* Lundell (1939); *Plenckia* Reisseck (1861, *nom. cons.*). *Note*: Rafinesque does not give a derivation for *Plenckia* Rafinesque (1814, *nom. rej.*).
### Publications
##### n.8056. Bromatologia
**Title**
Josephi Jacobi Plenck,... *Bromatologia* seu doctrina de esculentis et potulentis. Viennae \[Wien\] (apud Rudolphum Graeffer) 1784. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Bromatologia*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1784, frontisp., p. \[1\]-428, \[1-12, index\]. *Copy*: NY (latin ed.). – Bromatologia: the science of food; p. 19-176 on edible plants. BM mentions latin and german editions with this same t.p.
##### n.8057. Icones plantarum medicinalium
**Title**
Josephi Jacobi Plenck... *Icones plantarum medicinalium* secundum systema Linnaei digestarum, cum enumeratione virium et usus medici, chirurgici atque diaetetici... Centuria. i\[-viii\]. Viennae \[Wien\] (apud Rudolphum Graeffer et Soc. \[cent. vi: apud A. Blumauer, cent. vii sumptibus Librariae camesinianae...\] 1788 \[-1812\]. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Icon. pl. med.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1788-1812, in parts. Volume 8 consisted only of two parts due to the death of the author (edited by Joseph Lorentz Kerndl). The book contains 758 hand-coloured engravings. 7 grosse\[n\] kostspielig aufgelegten Foliobände\[n\] \[...\], allein der Text ist ohne Werth und die Abbildungen sind meist Copien aus anderen Werken" (Neilreich). *Copies*: GOET (vols. 1-7), HU (vol. 1); Teyler, WU (1-7). The analysis below is of the copy at GOET (in original covers), submitted by G. Wagenitz, and on the copy at WU (inf. Gutermann).
*Text, cent. 1*: 1788, p. \[i-xii\], \[1\]-62, \[63-64\].
*cent. 2*: 1789, p. \[1\]-80, \[1-2, index\].
*cent. 3*: 1790, p. \[1\]-74, \[1-2\].
*cent. 4*: 1791, p. \[1\]-93, \[1-2\].
*cent. 5*: 1792, p. \[1\]-84, \[1-2\].
*cent. 6*: 1794, p. \[1\]-65, \[1-2\]; 2 title-pages.
*cent. 7*: 1803, p. \[i\]-iv, 1-58.
*cent. 8*: 1812, not in copy GOET.
*Plates, cent. 1*, 1788.
*fasc. 1*: *pl. 1-25*, "Hiezu kommt" (with this fascicle belongs:) t.p., dedic, pref. index cent. 1 (= \[i-xii\], text A-D.
*fasc. 2*: *pl. 26-50*, id. text E-H.
*fasc. 3*: *pl. 51-75*, id. text I-M.
*fasc. 4*: *pl. 76-100*, id. text N-S.
*cent. 4*: 1789.
*fasc. 5*: *pl. 101-125*, id. text A-E.
*fasc. 6*: *pl. 126-150*, id. text F-M.
*fasc. 7*: *pl. 151-175*, id. text N-Q.
*fasc. 8*: *pl. 176-200*, id. text R-X, "Erinnerung".
*Cent. 3*: 1790.
*fasc. 9*: *pl. 201-225*, id. text. A-G.
*fasc. 10*: *pl. 226-250*, id. text H-M.
*fasc. 11*: *pl. 251-275*, id. text N-Q.
*fasc. 12*: *pl. 276-300*, id. text R-U.
*Cent. 4*: 1791.
*fasc. 13*: *pl. 301-325*, id. text A-H.
*fasc. 14*: *pl. 326-350*, id. text I-O.
*fasc. 15*: *pl. 351-375*, id. text P-S.
*fasc. 16*: *pl. 376-400*, id. text T-Aa.
*Cent. 5*: 1792-1793, "Centuria vi. et ultima".
*fasc. 17*: 1792, *pl. 401-425*, id. text A-K.
*fasc. 18*: 1792, *pl. 426-450*, id. text L-P.
*fasc. 19*: 1793, *pl. 451-475*, id. text Q-T.
*fasc. 20*: 1793, *pl. 476-500*, id. text U-Z.
*Cent. 6*: 1794-1795.
*fasc. 21*: 1794, *pl. 501-525*, id. text A-D.
*fasc. 22*: 1794, *pl. 526-550*, id. text E-S.
*fasc. 23*: 1795, *pl. 551-575*, id. text H-I.
*fasc. 24*: 1794 \[sic\], *pl. 576-600*, no mention of text on cover.
*Cent. 7*: 1803-1805.
*fasc. 1*: 1803, *pl. 601-625*, id. text A-D.
*fasc. 2*: 1804, *pl. 626-650*, id. text E-G.
*fasc. 3*: 1805, *pl. 651-675*, id. text H-L.
*fasc. 4*: 1805, *pl. 676-700*, id. text M-P.
*Cent. 8*: 1812 (Teyler copy), *pl. 701-758.*
*Ref*.: DU 225, GF p. 70, NI 1536, PR 7201.
- Neilreich, A., Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 5: 34. 1855.
##### n.8058. Elementa terminologiae botanicae
**Title**
Josephi Jacobi Plenk \[sic\]... *Elementa terminologiae botanicae* ac systematis sexualis plantarum. Viennae \[Wien\] (apud A. Blumauer) 1796. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Elem. termin. bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1796, p. \[1\]-169, \[170-172\]. *Copies*: G, NY, USDA.
*German*: 1798, p. \[1\]-168. *Copy*: B. – "Joseph Jakob Plenk's... *Anfangsgründe der botanischen Terminologie* und des Geschlechtssystems der Pflanzen". Wien (Bey Christ. Fridr. Wappler). Oct. 1798.
*Spanish*: 1802, p. \[3\]-222, \[1, err.\], \[p. \[1\], h.t.? lacking in Hunt and FI copies?\]. *Copies*: FI, HU. – *Elementos de la nomenclatura botánica*, y sistema sexual de las plantas,... traducidos del latin al español para el uso de los discípulos de los Reales Colégios de Cirurgía Medica, por el fisico D. Juan Francisco Bahí \[1775-1841\],... Barcelona (por la Compañia de Jordi, Roca, y Gaspár) 1802. Qu.