> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 362](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189833) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/25023-1) LSID 25023-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19513669) QID Q19513669 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Potonié, Robert \[Henri Hermann Ernst\] (1889-1974), German palaeobotanist, palynologist and coal petrologist; son of Henry Potonié; Dr. phil. Berlin 1920; habil. Berlin (Techn. Hochsch.) 1922; from 1920-1923 voluntary collaborator, from 1923-1924 assistant with the Preuss. Geol. Landesanst.; 1934-1955 Bezirks-Geologe, Reichsamt Bodenforschung, ultimately at Krefeld. **Abbreviated name**: *R. Potonié* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.Potonié*\] #### Herbarium and types Palaeobotanical collections at the Amt für Bodenforschung, Krefeld. Some pollen preparations in Herb. Arbeitsstelle Paläobotanik, Deut. Akad. Wiss., Berlin. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 103; BFM no. 2583; BJI 2: 139; BM 8: 1024; Roon p. 89. #### Biofile - Andrews, H.N., The fossil hunters 316. 1980. - Becker, K. & E. Schumacher, S.B. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin N.F. 1(2): 146. 1973 (bibl. publ. Gesellschaft). - Cowan, R.S., Taxon 23: 448. 1974 (death). - Doubinger, J., Pollen et Spores 16(2): 157-160. 1974 (obit., portr.). - Freund, H. & A. Berg, Gesch. Mikroskopie 28, 43. 1963. - Grebe, H., Rev. Palaeobot. Palyn. 17(3/4): 217-220. 1974 (obit., portr, b. 2 Dec 1889, d. 26 Jan 1974). - Kremp, G.O.W., Robert Potonié (1889-1974) mss. (unpubl. obituary). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 6(3): 2065. 1938, 7a(3): 614-616. 1959. (bibl.). - Potonié, R., Synopsis der Gattungen der *sporne dispersae* vols. 1-6, 1956-1970; see also his Geological sporology and palynology, Palynol. Bull. 1: 7-10. 1965. - Rüffle, L., Ber. Geol. Ges. D.D.R. 9: 404. 1964 (pollen prep.). - Schmid, R. & M. J., *in* J. Arditti, ed., Orchid biol. 1: 29, 30) 43) 44. 1977. - Wulff, E.V., Intr. hist. Plant Geogr. 92, 178. 1943. #### Composite works Editor: *Geologisches Zentralblatt* vols. 69(1)-70(1). 1941-1942. #### Eponymy *Potonieipollenites* B. Agrali (1965); *Potonieisporites* D.C. Bhardwaj (1955); *Potonieitriradites* D.C. Bharadwaj et V. Sinha (1956). #### Festschrift see Glückauf 85, 1949 (p. 945 and foll.), Erdöl u. Kohle 7: 878. 1954. ### Publications ##### n.8229. Taschenatlas zur Flora von Nord **Title** *Taschenatlas zur Flora von Nord* – *und Mitteldeutschland* von Henry Potonié überarbeitet von... Robert Potonié... 7. Auflage. Jena (Verlag von Gustav Fischer) 1923. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Taschenatl. Fl. N.M. Deutschland*. **Notes** *Author of eds. 1-6* (*1885-1913*): Henri Potonié, see above. *Publ*.: 1923 (Nat. Nov. Aug 1923), p. \[i\]-vi, 1-409. *Copies*: BR, G, NY, U. The accompanying text of ed. 6 (see Henry Potonié) was not published in a seventh edition.