> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 596](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333735) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9630-1) LSID 9630-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64026) QID Q64026 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sievers, Johann Erasmus (x-1795), German (Hannover) pharmacist, botanist and explorer; traveller in Southern Siberia and Mongolia 1790-1795. **Abbreviated name**: *Sievers* \[standard form in IPNI: *Siev.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]]; some further material in [[Collection H|H]] and [[Collection MW|MW]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 886, 6(2): 76 (b. 1771, d. 1801 Riga, probably erroneous); Backer p. 532; Bret. p. 313; Dryander 3: 274; Hegi 4(2): 908; Herder p. 60 (Briefe aus Siberien, 1796); Lasègue p. 414, 503; Rehder 1: 453; TL-2/see J.F. Ehrhart; TR 1294 (Briefe aus Siberien has botany). #### Biofile - Borodin, J., Trav. Mus. bot. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg 4: 105-106. 1908 (details on Siberian travels; eponymy). - Herder, F. v., Bot. Jahrb. 9: 431, 432, 451-452. 1888 (details on Siberian journey; committed suicide in St. Petersburg upon his return); Bot. Centralbl. 55: 269. 1893, 56: 390. 1894 (coll. LE). - Kukkonen, I., Herb. Steven 93. 1971. - Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 74. 1886 (herb. at LE, dupl. MW). - Pallas, P.S., Nova Acta Acad. Leop. 10: 369-383. *pl. 6-11.* 1797. #### Handwriting S.V. Lipschitz & I.T. Vasilczenko, Central herbarium of the USSR 1968, p. 121. #### Eponymy *Novosieversia* F. Bolle (1933); *Sieversia* Willdenow (1811). ### Publications ##### n.11.969. Briefe aus Siberien **Title** Johann Sievers... *Briefe aus Siberien* an seine Lehrer... Herrn Brande,... Herrn Ehrhart,... Herrn Westrumb. St. Petersburg (bei Zacharias Logan) 1796. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Briefe Siberien*. **Notes** *Orig. ed.*: 1796 (p. 4: Mar 1795), p. \[1\]-226, *1 pl. Copies*: H, LC. *Reprint*: *in* Pallas, Neueste Nord. Beytr. 3: 149-370. 1796 (fide TR).