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### Author
Rodschied, Ernst Karl (x-1796), German (Hanau) physician and botanist; some time practicing in the "Dutch colony Rio Essequibo" (now Guyana).
**Abbreviated name**: *Rodschied* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rodschied*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection GOET|GOET]] (types G.F.W. Meyer, *Prim. fl. esseq.* 1818 (TL-2/5930).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 168 (b. Jan 1796); Dryander 3: 4; PR 7696, ed. 1: 8655.
#### Biofile
- Meyer, G.F.W., Prim. fl. esseq. vii-ix. 1818 (biogr. sketch).
- Wagenitz, G., Index coll, princ. herb. Gott. 136. 1982 (herb.).
#### Eponymy
*The etyomology of Rodschiedia* P.G. Gaertner, B. Meyer et Scherbius (1800) could not be determined and that of *Rodschiedia* Miquel (1845) was not given.
### Publications
##### n.9366. De necessitate et utilitate studii botanici
**Title**
Dissertatio inauguralis medico-botanica. *De necessitate et utilitate studii botanici*. Quam summi numinis auspicio et gratiosi medicorum ordinis consensu pro gradu doctoris in arte medica et chirurgica rite obtinendo publico eruditorum examini d. \[handwriting: xxiv\] martii mdccxc subiicit auctor Ernestus Carolus Rodschied hanoviensis. Marburgi (typis novae typograph. academ.) \[1790\].
**Abbreviated title**: *Necess. util. stud. bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 24 Mar 1790, p. \[1\]-34. *Copy*: Marburg Univ. Libr. (inf. G. Wagenitz).
*Ref*.: Hoppe, D.H., Bot. Taschenb. 1792: 189-217.
##### n.9367. Medizinische und chirurgische Bemerkungen über das Klima, die Lebensweise und Krankheiten der Einwohner der hollaendischen Kolonie Rio Essequebo
**Title**
*Medizinische und chirurgische Bemerkungen über das Klima, die Lebensweise und Krankheiten der Einwohner der hollaendischen Kolonie Rio Essequebo*... Frankfurt (in der Jaegerschen Buchhandlung) 1796. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Med. Bem. Kol. Rio Essequebo*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1794 (p. xii: 30 Nov 1793), p. \[i\*\], \[iii\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-320. *Copy*: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 's Gravenhage (Royal Libr., the Hague). – On p. 21-90 a description of 114 plants; some names antidate those of G.F.W. Meyer (*Prim. fl. Esseq.* q.v. for notes on Rodschied on p. vi-ix. (1818)).