> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 933](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190404) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8656-1) LSID 8656-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2615068) QID Q2615068 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rottler, Johan Peter (1749-1836), Strassburg (Alsatia) born Danish missionary, traveller, orientalist and botanist; Dr. phil. Wien 1795; at Tranquebar (South of Madras on Coromandel Coast) 1776-1806; subsequently with English missionaries at Madras, travelling in the Ganges region and Ceylon (1788, 1795). **Abbreviated name**: *Rottler* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rottler*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection LIV|LIV]]; other material at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection ER|ER]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection H|H]]-Ach(Lich.), [[Collection JE|JE]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]] (important set), [[Collection MH|MH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – Manuscript catalogue at [[Collection K|K]]; letters to J.E. Smith at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 7: 412; Backer p. 500 (epon.); Barnhart 3: 183 (d. 27 Jan 1836); BB p. 262; CSP 5: 304; Desmond p. 532; Frank 3(Anh.): 86; Hegi 7: 560; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, 2: (files); Lasègue p. 131, 137, 138, 331, 337, 430, 503, 558; PR (*alph.*); Rehder 1: 471; SK 4: ci; Urban-Berl. p. 389, 415; Zander ed. 10, p. 709, ed. 11, p. 809. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1926: 221-222; J. Bot. 10: 128. 1872 (R.'s herbarium transferred to K). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.308. 1980. - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 17, 42, 49, 55, 71, 116. 1965. - Christensen, Dansk. Bot. Hist. 1: 119. 1924, 2: 98-100. 1924 (bibl.). - Cleghorn, H., Bot. Gaz., London 3: 55. 1851 (brief biogr. sketch). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 83. 1934. - Foulkes, T., Madras J, Lit. Sci. 22: 1-17. 1861 (biogr. memoir). - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. explor. S. Afr. 301. 1981. - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 57. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 469. 1884. - Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 63. 1886. - Martius, C.P.F. von, Flora 17(1): 3. 1834 (Rottler material in Wallich herb.); 34(1): 3, 5. 1851 (Rottler plants at M). - Müller, D., Bot. Tidsskr. 52: 56-57. 1955 (letters R. to Vahl at C). - Rottler, J.B., Neu. Schr. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 4: 180-224. *pl*. 5-5. 1803 (Bot. Bern. Reise Frankenbar nach Madras). - Smith, J.E., *in* Rees' Cycl. sub Rottlera. - Stansfield, H., Bull. Liverpool Mus. 1957: 27-42 (on Rottler and G.F. Klein's coll. at LIV). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 11. 1936. - Wight, R., Bot. Misc. 2: 95. 1831. #### Handwriting Bull. Liverpool Mus. 1957: 20, 32. #### Eponymy *Roettlera* M. Vahl (1805); *Rottlera* Willdenow (1797); *Rottlera* J.J. Roemer et J.A. Schuhes (1817, *orth. var.* of *Roettlera* M. Vahl); *Rottleria* S.E. Bridel (1826).