> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 497](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333636) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9454-1) LSID 9454-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68705) QID Q68705 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Seier, Eduard Georg (1849-1922), German (Prussian) plant collector, archeologist and ethnologist; studied at the universities of Breslau and Berlin; on active service in the Franco-Prussian war; state teacher's examination 1875; high school teacher at Berlin 1876-1879; turned to ethnological studies; Dr. phil. Leipzig 1887; assistant (1892) later divisional director (1904) at the Berlin ethnological museum; habil. Berlin 1894; professor of American languages 1899; travelled in Mexico and Central America 1887-1888, 1895-1897, 1902-1903, 1904-1905, 1910-1911; mainly studying the Maya culture but also collecting plants. **Abbreviated name**: *Seler* \[standard form in IPNI: *Seler*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (6000; orig. set destr.; dupla extant; see Urban p. 396); further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MEXU|MEXU]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Seler's Central-European herbarium was offered for sale in Herbarium 65: 167. 1923 and 71: 223. 1925. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 258 (b. 5 Dec 1849, d. 23 Nov 1922); CSP 18: 681; Langman p. 693; TL-2/4935; Urban-Berl. p. 396. #### Biofile - Anon., Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 170: 181-187. 1947; Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 64: 244. 1922 (d.); Deut. biogr. Jahrb. 4 (for 1922): 370. 1929. - Breedlove, D.E., Fl. Chiapas 25. 1981. - Harms, H., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 63: 95-96. 1922 (congratulations 70th birthday). - Herrera, F.L., Estud. Fl. Cuzco 18. 1930. - Knobloch, I.W., The plant collectors of Northern Mexico 63. 1979; Prel. list pl. coll. Mexico 88. 1983. - Lehmann, W., Deut. biogr. Jahrb. 5: 410-416. 1930 (detailed biogr.). - Loesener, Th., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 65: 78-83. 1923 (obit.); Bot. Arch. 7(1-2): 1-4. 1924 (obit.). - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 304-305. 1972 (data on Mexican trips). - Preuss, K.Th., Z. Ethnol. 55: 1-6. 1923 (scientific work). - Quelle, O., Ibero-Amer. Arch. 1: 33-39. 1924 (70th birthday). - Rivet, P., J. Soc. Américanistes Paris ser. 2. 15: 280-287. 1923 (obit., bibl.). - Schuchhardt, S.B., Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1923: cxv-cxvii (commemoration). - Seler-Sachs, Caecilie \[Mrs. G.E. Seler\], Auf alten Wegen in Mexiko und Guatemala, 1960, xxiii, 362 p., ed. 2, 1925 (travelogue of the Seiers). - Schuchhardt, S.B., Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1923: cxv-cxvii (commemoration). #### Composite works *Plantae selerianae*, 1894-1923, a series of papers by L.E.T. Loesener et al., in Bull. Herb. Boissier and Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg, see TL-2/4935. #### Festschrift - (1) Lehmann, Walter, ed., *Festschrift Eduard Seler*, Stuttgart 1922, viii, 654 p. (list of travels p. 1-2, portr., bibl. (257 nos.), p. 3-27). - (2) Tomo especial de homenaje consagrado a horar la memoria del ilustre antropólogo Dr. Eduardo Seler, Méx. antig. 7: 1-558 (portr., evaluation, bibl.). #### Note Married, 1884, Caecilie Sachs (b. 1855) who accompanied him on his travels and collected plants with him. #### Eponymy *Selera* Ulbrich (1913); *Selerothamnus* Harms (1921). ### Publications ##### n.11.648. Reisebriefe aus Mexiko **Title** *Reisebriefe aus Mexiko*... Berlin (Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung) 1889. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reisebr. Mexiko*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1889, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-267, \[268, err.\], *8 pl. Copies*: LC, NSUB.