> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 292](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333431) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9222-1) LSID 9222-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67201) QID Q67201 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schöpf, Johann David (1752-1800), German (Bavarian) botanist and physician; Dr. med. Erlangen 1776; army physician with Ansbach ("Hessian") troups in the English army during the American War of Liberation 1777-1783; travelled through Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Carolina's and the Bahamas; court and military surgeon in Bayreuth 1784; president of the medical council of Ansbach 1795, id. of Bayreuth 1797. **Abbreviated name**: *Schöpf* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schöpf*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection M|M]] (through Schreber, Martius 1851); a few specimens associated with Schöpf in [[Collection PH|PH]] (Mears 1978). – Schreber also acquired the "Index Plantarum Noveboracensium" (also at [[Collection M|M]]; viii and 353 p. mss). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 31: 350-352 (F. Ratzel); Backer p. 519; Barnhart 3: 237 (b. 8 Mar 1752, d. 10 Sep 1800); BM 4: 1855, 8: 1159; Dryander 3: 369; Langman p. 683; Lasègue p. 460; LS 24145; ME 1: 227, 3: 355, 651, 739; Merrill p. 208; PR 8316, ed. 1: 9238; Quenstedt p. 387; Rehder 5: 776; SIA 7177; Tucker 1: 633. #### Biofile - Anon., Neue Schr. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 3: 600-605. 1801 (obit.); Pharm. Rundschau 4: 123-124. 1886. - Beard, E., Amer.-German Rev. 25(1): 27-29. 1958 ("doctor-naturalist on tour, 1783-1784"). - Ewan, J., *in* J.F. Leroy, ed., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 39. 1957. - Fenton, C.L. & M.A., Giants of geology 124. 1952. - Goode, G.B., Ann. Rept. Smiths. Inst. 1897(2): 396-397. 1901. - Hindle, Brook, Pursuit sci. revolut. Amer. 26, 227, 282, 307, 316. 1956. - Hoffmann, F., Pharm. Rev. 16: 260-265, 296-302. 1898 (notes from travel reports). - Kelly, H.A., Some Amer. med. bot. 15. 1929. - Kremers, E., Bull. Lloyd. Libr. 6 (reprod. ser. 3): 3-7. 1903 (biogr. sketch as preface to fasc. repr. of *Mat. med. amer.*), (see also Pharm. Rev. 21: 156). - Martius, K.F.P. von, Flora 34: 4. 1851 (N. Amer. coll. in herb. J.C. Schreber); 34(1): 4. 1851 (coll. and mss. at M). - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 168. 1978. - Meusel, J.D., Lexik. teut. Schriftst. 12: 364-367. 1812. - Meyer, J., Das Bayerland 12: 68-70. 1901 (100th anniv. of birth). - Morrison, A.J., German Amer. Ann. 12: 255-264. 1910 (gen. acct. Amer. stay); Bull. Lloyd Libr. 16 (Bot. ser. 2): 1-38. 1911 (English excerpts of an English translation of Schoepf, *Reise nordamer. Staat.*, Erlangen 1788. - Müller-Jahncke, W.D., Pharmacy in History 20(2): 43-64. 1978 (general study, well documented). - Peters, H., Pharm.-Rundschau 13(7): 151-156. 1895 (detailed account of his American period). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 834. 1863, 7a (suppl.): 595-596. 1971 (biogr., extensive biogr. refs.). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 6. 1981. - Sabin, J., Dict. books America 19: 39. 1891. - Standley, P.C., Rhodora 21: 69-70. 1919 (Schöpf published *Solidago suaveolens* in his "Reise"). - Toepfler, A., Torreya 24(4): 57-58. 1924 (brief biogr. sketch). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 121. 1902. - Williams, G.H., Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 5: 591-593. 1894 (contr. to N. Amer. geology). #### Eponymy *Schoepfianthus* H.G.A. Engler ex E. De Wildeman (1907); *Schoepfiopsis* Miers (1878). *Note*: *Schoepfia* Schreber (1789) probably also honors this author, but no etymology was given. #### Thesis See J.C.D. Schreber, *Plantae verticillatae unilabiatae*. Dissertatio botanica... respondente J.D. Schoepffio,... 1773. ### Publications ##### n.11.005. Materia medica americana **Title** D. Jo. Davidis Schoepf... *Materia medica americana* potissimum regni vegetabilis ... Erlangae \[Erlangen\] (sumtibus Jo. Jac. Palmii) 1787. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mat. med. amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1787 (p. xviii: 26 Sep 1786), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-170. *Copies*: G, HH, KU, MO, USDA. *Facsimile ed*.: 1903, Bull. Lloyd Libr., Repr. ser. no. 3. Introduction (p. 3-7) by Edward Kremers, followed by facs., \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-170. *Copy*: BR. ##### n.11.006. Reise durch einige der mittlem und südlichen Vereinigten nordamerikanischen Staaten **Title** *Reise durch einige der mittlem und südlichen Vereinigten nordamerikanischen Staaten* nach Ost-Florida und den Bahama-Inseln unternommen in den Jahren 1783 und 1784... Erlangen (bey Johann Jacob Palm) 1788. 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reise nordamer. Staat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1788, 2 vols. *Copy*: NSUB. *1*:1788, p. \[i-xxiv\], \[1\]-644, \[645, err.\], map. *2*: 1788, p. \[i\*-vi\*\], \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-551, \[552, err.\]. *Copies*: HU (696), NSUB, NY. *Extracts*: See A.J. Morrison 1911. *English translation* (p.p.): 1911, Bull. Lloyd Libr. no. 16, Bot. ser. 2. 38 p. *Full English translation*: 1968, New York (Bergman publishers), *Travels in the Confederation* \[1783-1784\] from the German... translated and edited by Alfred J. Morrison, 2 vols. *Copies*: NY, US. *1*: portr., p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix-xiii\], \[1\]-428, map. *2*: p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-344.