> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 577](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190048) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8136-1) LSID 8136-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21337932) QID Q21337932 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Range, Paul Theodor (1879-1952), German (Prussian) geologist and botanist; Dr. phil. Leipzig; geologist with the Preuss. geol. Landesanst. 1904-1906; government geologist for S.W. Africa 1906-1914; on active service in France and the Middle East 1914-1918; lecturer in general geology Univ. Berlin 1921-1932, from 1934 extraord. prof. of geology. **Abbreviated name**: *Range* \[standard form in IPNI: *Range*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (rd. 1951/52, mainly Europe) private S. African herb. at [[Collection SAM|SAM]]/[[Collection NBG|NBG]] (rd. 1920); material from S.W. Africa: [[Collection B|B]] (2000 in as far as received before 1943 mainly destroyed), [[Collection BOL|BOL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]] (important coll.); from Egypt: [[Collection B|B]] (id.). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 128; Biol.-Dokum. 14: 7303; BJI 2: 142; BL 1: 32, 56, 314; BM 8: 1047; Bossert p. 323; Christiansen p. 319; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 401; Urban-Berl. p. 184, 386. #### Biofile - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 93. 1978 (q.v. for bibl. of bot. publ. by R on S.W. Africa). - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 289-290. 1981 (coll., portr., b. 1 Mai 1879, d. 29 Aug 1952), q.v. for further biographical references). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 6(3): 2119. 1938 (b. 1 Mai 1879; bibl.). - White, A. & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2. 28, 340, 1001. 1937. #### Note Range published *Die Flora des Namalandes* in 14 parts in Repert. Sp. nov., Fedde 30: 129-158. 1932, 33: 1-22. 1933, 35: 35-42. 1934, 36: 1-19, 97-109, 241-264. 1934, 38: 122-130, 256-280. 1935, 39: 55-60, 283-287. 1936, 43: 251-256. 1938, 44: 101-124. 1938, 45: 320. 1938. ### Publications ##### n.8628. Die Flora der Isthmus- wüste **Title** Gesellschaft für Palästina-Forschung 7. Veröffentlichung. *Die Flora der Isthmuswüste*. Auf Grund des vom Verfasser in den Jahren 1915/16 gesammelten, von Herrn Professor Dr. Georg Schweinfurth bestimmten Materials unter Benutzung der einschlägigen Literatur bearbeitet von Dr. Paul Range. Berlin 1921. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Isthmus-wüste*. **Notes** *Author of identifications*: Georg August Schweinfurth (1836-1925). *Publ*.: 1921 (dated 1921 but reviews seen by us and Nat. Nov. ref. are of 1924), p. \[1\]-44. *Copy*: USDA. – "Isthmuswüste": area between Suez and Sinai desert. See also Heft 14 of J.L. Wilser, Die Kriegsschauplätze 1914-1918 geologisch dargestellt, 1926. *Ref*.: Krause, E., Bot. Jahrb. 58 (lit.): 53. 1923.