> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 428](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333567) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9365-1) LSID 9365-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63917) QID Q63917 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schweigger, August Friedrich (1783-1821), German (Bavarian) botanist and zoologist; Dr. med. chir. Erlangen 1804; with Willdenow in Berlin; from 1809-1821 director of the botanical garden and professor of botany at Königsberg; travelled in Western, Southern and Central Europe; murdered near Girgenti in Sicily. **Abbreviated name**: *Schweigg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schweigg.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection KBG|KBG]] (destr.). – Plants collected in Sicily in [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.); in Nice in [[Collection P|P]]; further material in [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg herb.; name spelled Schweigger and Schweiger on labels). – Letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 33: 332-333 (E. Wunschmann); AG 3: 556; Backer p. 661; Barnhart 3: 249 (b. 8 Sep 1783, d. 28 Jun 1821);BM4: 1876-1877, 8: 1168; CSP 5: 589; Frank 3 (Anh.): 94; Herder p. 142, 158, 189; Hortus 3: 1203; Jackson p. 428; Langman p. 689; MW p. 441; PR 8526-8530, ed. 1: 9479-9483; Rehder 5: 787; TL-1/1210, 1211; Tucker 3: 275; Urban-Berl. p. 395; Zander ed. 10, p. 715, ed. 11, p. 816. #### Biofile - Anon., Ann. Kriminalrechtspflege, Hitzig, 35: 152-183. 1846 (account of process against murderer, Michelangelo Alessi, of Cammarata; fide PR); Flora 3: 636. 1820 (trip to Greece \[via Sicily\], 4: 748. 1821 (d.), 5: 30-31. 1822 (details on his death in Sicily)). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytogeographie 449. 1880. - Caspary, R., Festschr. 50-j. Bestehen Preuss. Bot. Ver. 273-276. 1912 (biogr., portr., bibl., herb.). - Heinsius, W., Allg. Buch.-Lex. 3: 682. 1812, 5: 511. 1817, 6: 775. 1822. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 416. 1864. - Lorek, C.G., Preuss. Botaniker u. ihre Verdienst um die Kenntniss einheimischer Pflanzen 5. 1849. - Percheron, A., Bibl. entom. 2: 57. 1837. - Pritzel, G.A., Linnaea 19(3): 461-462. 1846. - Schmid, G., Goethe u.d. Naturw. 577. 1940. - Schweigger, J.S.C., ed., Bruchstücke aus dem Leben des als Opfer seiner Wissenschaft gefallenen Dr. August Friedrich Schweigger. Halle 1830, 84 p. (copies: LC, NSUB) (detailed biogr. information). #### Eponymy *Schweiggera* C.F.P. von Martius (1832); *Schweiggeria* K.P.J. Sprengel (1820). ### Publications ##### n.11.450. Specimen florae Erlangensis **Title** *Specimen florae Erlangensis*. Dissertatio medica inauguralis quam consentiente illustri medicorum ordine pro gradu doctoris medicinae ac chirurgiae rite obtinendo d. xv. nov. \[1804\]. Publice defendet Augustus Fridericus Schweigger erlangensis. Pars i. Class. i-xiii. Erlangae (Typis Hilpertianis) \[1804\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Spec. fl. Erlang.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Nov 1804 (t.p.), p. \[i-xii\], \[1\]-136. *Copies*: BR, L, MICH, NY. *Addenda*: 1811 (see H.P. Fuchs 1960), p. 137-160, written by Franz Koerte ((1782-1845). *Pars ii*: class. xiv-xxiii, see below *Fl. erlang.* 1811. *Ref*.: Fuchs, H.P., Ber. Schweiz, bot. Ges. 70: 449-450. 1960 (and Fl. males. Bull. 17: 910. 1962). ##### n.11.451. Flora erlangensis **Title** *Flora erlangensis*. Continens plantas phaenogamas circa Erlangam crescentes auctoribus Augusto Friderico Schweigger... et Francisco Koerte... Erlangae \[Erlangen\] (apud J.J. Palm) 1811. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. erlang.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811 (p. iv: 25 Sep 1810), p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix\], \[1\]-160, pars ii (continens plantarum phaenogamarum class. xiv-xxiii), \[1\]-143. *Copies*: G, L, M, NY. – The first part, p. \[1\]-160 consists of the 1804 text p. \[1\]-136, mentioned above under *Spec. fl. erlang.*, with the addenda 137-160, first issued in this volume; the second part continues the treatment in the *Spec. fl. Erlang.* for class. 14-23. – The date of for class. 14-23. – The date of *Fl. erlang*, cannot be given by us with more precision; M. Lidén, Taxon 30: 323. 1981 cites an instance in which the book competes with Clairville, *Man. herbor. Suisse* which was published 28 Apr 1811. The *Fl. erlang.* preface, however, is 25 Sep 1810, that of the *Man. herbor. Suisse* 21 Feb 1811. ##### n.11.452. Enumeratio plantarum horti botanici Regiomontani **Title** *Enumeratio plantarum horti botanici Regiomontani*. Regiomonti \[Königsberg i. Pr.\] (typis Academicis) 1812. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Enum. pl. hort. Regiom.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1812 (p. vi: 28 Oct 1812), p. \[i\]-vi, \[7\]-79. *Copies*: B-S, NY, USDA; IDC 6469. ##### n.11.453. Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen **Title** *Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen* von August Friedrich Schweigger,... anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen über Corallen; nebst einem Anhange, Bemerkungen über den Bernstein enthaltend... Berlin (gedruckt und verlegt bei Georg Reimer) 1819. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Beob. naturh. Reis.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1819, p. \[i\]-vi, \[vii-viii, cont.\], \[1\]-127, \[128, err.\], \[1-4 expl. pl.\], charts 1-12, *pl. 1-8* (p.p. col. copp.). *Copy*: PH. ##### n.11.454. Nachrichten über den botanischen Garten zu Königsberg **Title** *Nachrichten über den botanischen Garten zu Königsberg*,... Königsberg (in der academischen Buchhandlung) 1819. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Nachr. bot. Gart. Königsberg*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1819, p. \[1\]-45, 2 charts. *Copy*: B-S. ##### n.11.455. De plantarum classificatione naturali **Title** *De plantarum classificatione naturali* disquisitionibus anatomicis et physiologicis stabilienda, commentatio qua fautoribus et amicis, imprimis collegis exellentissimis nec non commilitonibus aestumatissimis valedicit Dr. Augustus Fridericus Schweigger,... Regiomonti \[Königsberg i. Pr.\] (Typis academicis...) 1820. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. class. nat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1820 (rd Paris Acad. Sci. 4 Sep 1820), p. \[i\]-iv, \[5\]-32, *charts 1-3. Copies*: B-S, FI, G, HH, NY. *Ref*.: Anon., Flora 5(1) Beil. 2: 97-103. Feb 1822 (rev.). - Sprengel, K.P.J., Neue Entd. Pfl.-K. 2: 319-322. 1821.