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### Author
Sobolewskiy, Gregor \[Grigoriy Fedorowich\] (1741-1807), Russian physician and botanist; studied at the St. Petersburg General Land Hospital 1757; local practicioner's examination 1761; studied in Paris and Leiden; Dr. med. Leiden 1775; general practitioner's examination 1777; practicing physician and lecturer in materia medica and botany at St. Petersburg, in charge of the Botanical Garden 1779, physician to the guards' regiment 1782-1797, professor of botany at the Academy of medicine and surgery 1795-1803.
**Abbreviated name**: *Sobol.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sobol.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LE|LE]]; further material at [[Collection MW|MW]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 661; Barnhart 3: 299; BM 5: 1957; Herder p. 201; Jackson p. 330; LS 25306; PR 8758, ed. 1: 9731; Rehder 1: 360; TR 1309-1311 (bibl.); Tucker 1: 658.
#### Biofile
- Asmous, V.C., Chron. bot. 11(2): *pl. 53.* 1947 (repr. frontisp. Fl. petrop. with explanatory text).
- Lindemann, E. v., Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 72. 1886 (herb. to medical academy in St. Petersburg; 128 specimens in Lindemann's herbarium).
- Lipschitz, S., Fl. URSS font. 979-980. 1975.
- Lipsky, V.l., Imp. S.-Petersb. bot. sada 3: 436-439. 1915 (biogr., bibl., further biogr. data and sec. refs.).
- Shetler, S.G., Komarov Bot. Inst. 27, 28, 36, 196. 1967.
#### Eponymy
*Sobolewskia* Marschall von Bieberstein (1832).
#### Manuscript
*Appendix ad Floram ingricam* sive catalogus plantarum circa Petropolin crescentium a Doctore Gregorio Sobolewsky nuper detectarum secundum ill. Linnaei systema definitarum, quae in Flora ingrica non reperiuntur 1779 (n.v.). Mss. at LE (see Ruprecht, Hist. stirp. fl. petrop. 129-130. 1845 and TR 1309).
### Publications
##### n.12.330. Flora petropolitana
**Title**
*Flora petropolitana*. Sistens plantas in gubernio petropolitano sponte crescentes, tarn eas quae olim in Flora ingrica Krascheninnikovii a Gortero enumeratae sunt, quam novas post annum 1764 hucusque a variis botanicis Petropoli degentibus detectas, nunc vero generice ac specifice descriptas cum additione variarum observationum, atque russica plantarum denominatione, curante... Gregorio Sobolewskj... Petropoli \[St.-Petersburg\] (Typis Collegii imperialis medici) 1799. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: \[*Fl. petrop.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1799 (p. vii: 5 Jul 1799), frontisp., p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-vii, \[viii\], \[1\]-354. *Copies*: B, G, H, HH, NY, USDA. – Copies of the Russian language *Flora of St. Petersburg*, 1801-1802 (see Ruprecht, Hist. stirp. fl. petrop. no. 1799. 1845 and G. Borszczow, Enum. musc. Ingr. 1857, p. 8), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-405, \[1\]-16, \[407\]-409 and \[i\], \[1\]-424, *5 pl*. are at HH and H-UB.