> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 124](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333263) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9037-1) LSID 9037-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2268288) QID Q2268288 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Scheidweiler, Michel Joseph François (1799-1861), German-born (Rheinland) Belgium botanist and horticulturist; at first active as pharmacist and industrial chemist at Siegsburg, Köln and Aachen; settled in Belgium 1830, at first in Liège, later in Brussels; teacher at the Bruxelles École de médecine vétérinaire et d'agriculture de la Belgique 1836, teacher at the horticultural college at Gentbrugge 1851. **Abbreviated name**: *Scheidw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Scheidw.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BR|BR]]; further material at [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection L|L]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 660; Barnhart 3: 223 (b. 1 Aug 1799, d. 24 Sep 1861); Biol.-Dokum. 15: 7961; BM 4: 1827; Bossert p. 352; CSP 5: 452; Herder p. 365, 393; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 2: (files); Langman p. 677; MW p. 434; PR (alph.), 5203, 8232, ed. 1: 5745, 9088; Rehder 5: 765; RS p. 140; Urban-Berl. p. 272; Zander ed. 10, p. 711, ed. 11, p. 811. #### Biofile - Anon., Biogr. natl., Dict, écriv. belg. 3: 377. 1897; Bonplandia 9: 376. 1861 (obit. not.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 8: 503. 1863 (obit. not.); Österr. bot. Z. 11: 409. 1861 (d.). - Barrai, J.A., Rev. hortic. 1862: 8 (d.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 447. 1880 (coll. \[then\] at Gembloux). - Crépin, F., Man. fl. Belg. lviii. 1860, Guide bot. Belg. 247, 248, 476. 1878. - Fournier, É., Bull. Soc. bot. France 9: 558-559. 1863 (extract Rodigas, 1862). - Lemaire, Ch., Illustr. hortic. 8: 78. 1861 (obit. not.). - Oye, P. van, Plantk. Univ. Gent 18-19, fig. 25. 1960 (portr. brief sketch). - Reichenbach, H.G., Bot. Zeit. 19: 320. 1861 (brief obit.). - Rodigas, E., Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M.-J. Scheidweiler, Gand 1862, 31 p. (biogr., portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Co-editor with C. Lemaire & L. Van Houtte of *Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe*, 1845-1855, vols. 1-10. - (2) Editor, *Journal d'horticulture pratique*, vols. 1-5, 1843-1848. - (3) J. Schleiden, *La plante et sa vie*, 1859, translated by M. Scheidweiler and P. Royer, see under Schleiden. - (4) Editor, "*L'Horticulteur belge*, journal des jardiniers et des amateurs;..." vol. 4. 1837. #### Eponymy *Scheidweilera* Klotzsch (1854).