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### Author
Schmalz, Eduard (1801-1871), German (Saxonian) botanist and surgeon, practicing in Königsbrück 1824-1827; Dr. med. Leipzig 1827; practicing at Leipzig from 1827; ultimately physician for the poor in Dresden.
**Abbreviated name**: *Schmalz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schmalz*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Bought by G.L. Rabenhorst, q.v. Contains e.g. lichens from Leipzig and Königsbrück, mostly checked by E. Fries (see GR p. 132). – A mss volume with 140 drawings by Schmalz (mostly watercolours of higher fungi) is \[was?\] at the Sächsiche Landesbibliothek, Dresden (*Tabulae fungos praesertirn carnosos Saxoniae*,...) (*Pieschel 1929*).
#### Bibliography and biography
Biol.-Dokum. 16: 8098; BM 4: 1842; CSP 5: 496; GR p. 132; Herder p. 188; Krempelh. 1: 484; LS 23997-23999; PR 8247-8248, ed. 1: 9174-9175; Rehder 1: 377.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Flora 6(2) Beil. 2: 53-64. 1823 (dupl. coll.).
- Pieschel, E., S.B. Isis, Dresden 1927-1928: 56-64. 1929 (mss. ills.).
- Schade, A., Nat. lusat. 5: 29. 1961.
#### Note
Not to be confused with the Saxonian agriculturist Friedrich Schmalz (b. 25 Jan 1781, d. 15 Mai 1847) author of a *Theorie des Pflanzenbaus* (1840, publ. 7-13 Jun 1840, Hinrichs) and an *Anleitung zur Kenntniss und Anwendung eines neuen Ackerbausystems* (1842).
### Publications
##### n.10.842. Dispositio synoptica generum plantarum
**Title**
*Dispositio synoptica generum plantarum* circa Dresdam et sponte crescentium et in agris frequentius cultarum, adjectis familiis naturalibus,... Tabellarische Uebersicht der Gattungen von den um Dresden wildwachsenden und auf Aeckern gebauten Pflanzen, nebst den natürlichen Familien,... Als Anhang zu Dr. H.D.A. Ficinus Flora von Dresden. Dresden (In der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung) 1822. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Disp. syn. gen. pl.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1822 (p. 3: 18 Mai 1821, date of preface by H.D.A. Ficinus), p. \[1\]-37. *Copies*: B-S, FI, G. – For H.D.A. Ficinus, *Fl. Dresden* see TL-2/1768. Schmalz in his "Vorrede" to the *Dispositio* on p. 3 refers to Ficinus as residing in Königsbrück (nr. Dresden); he was born in Lommatzsch (Saxony) on 18 Mai 1801 (PR). – See also his *Kryptogamische Beiträge zur Flora der Gegend um Dresden*, Flora 6: 566-573. 1823.
*Ref*.: Anon., Flora 5(2), Beil. 2: 24-30. Jul-Dec 1822.
##### n.10.843. Prospectus. Fungorum species
**Title**
*Prospectus. Fungorum species* novis iconibus novisque descriptionibus illustratae. Pars i. Fungi carnosi. Cum pluribus mycologis editurus est Eduardus Schmalz... accedunt tabulae ii coloratae s.l.n.d. \[1827\]. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prosp., Fung. sp.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1827 (see German version below), p. \[1\]-7, *2 pl*. (col. copp. auct.). *Copies*: G(2).
*German translation*: Flora 10(2), Beil. 1: 1-15. Jul-Sep 1827, dated 1 Mai 1827 on p. 15; accompanied by one of the two plates, that of *Fistulina hepatica*. Subscription requested; general plan; Hefte of 25 plates each, with text, foreseen \[but not published\].
*Reissue*: 1829, p. \[i\], \[1\]-7, *2 pl*. (as above). *Copy*: FH. – "*Commentalo botanica* sistens descriptionem Fistulinae hepaticae Bull, et Agarici volemi Fr. auctore Eduardo Schmalz... Lipsiae 1829". Qu.
*Note*: other mycological papers by Schmalz: "*Cryptogamische Beiträge* zur Flora der Gegend um Dresden", Flora 6: 566-576. 1823, and "*Nachricht wegen Abbildungen fleischiger Pilze*", Bot. Zeit. 13: 22. 1855.