> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 713](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333852) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9849-1) LSID 9849-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4425867) QID Q4425867 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.