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### Author
Sommerfelt, Søren Christian \[Severin Christianus\] (1794-1838), Norwegian clergyman and botanist; studied theology in Copenhagen 1812, cand. theol. Kristiania \[Oslo\] 1817; vicar in Saltdallen 1818, and in Ringebo Gudbrandsdalen 1827.
**Abbreviated name**: *Sommerf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sommerf.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection O|O]]; further material at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]] (destr.), [[Collection UPS|UPS]].
*Exsiccatae*:
- (1) *Plantarum cryptogamarum norvegicarum* quas collegit... cent. 1-2, fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-200, Christianiae \[Oslo\] 1826-1830, sets at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection O|O]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection STR|STR]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Index*: Mag. Naturvid. 7(1): 158-161. 1826; (for lichens) see Lynge p. 493-494); further details in MD (p. 223), and Sayre (1969).
- (2) *Herbarium criticum novum*, sets at [[Collection L|L]] and [[Collection O|O]].
Some *letters* at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(1): 698; Barnhart 3: 302 (b. 9 Apr 1794, d. 29 Dec 1838); Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8772; BL 2: 451, 479, 719; BM 5: 1970, 2249; Bossert p. 376; CSP 5: 748; De Toni 1: cxviii; GR p. 714-715;, cat. p. 71; Hawksworth p. 186; Hegi 6(2): 1295; IF p. 102; IH 1 (ed. 7): 343; Kelly p. 216; Kleppa p. 332 (index); KR p. 660; Lasègue p. 321, 396; LS 25356-25363, 39378; MD 223-224; NI 2092; PR 8767-8768, ed. 1: 9743-9744; Rehder 1: 353; RS p. 142; SBC p. 132; Stevenson p. 1258; TR 269; Tucker 1: 659; Urban-Berl. 262, 291, 314.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Årsber. bot. Arb. k. Vet.-Acad. 1828: 264-265. 1829; Bot. Not. 1840: 210 (herb. acquired by O).
- Hornemann, J., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 591. 1837.
- Eckblad, F.-E., *in* Jansen, E. et al., Norsk biogr. leks. 14: 196-199. 1962.
- Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 557. 1969 (algae at C).
- Lindblom, A.E., Bot. Not. 2: 12. 1839.
- Lynge, B., Nyt Mag. Naturvid. Oslo 51(2/3): 116. 1913.
- Sayre, G., Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 19(1): 49. 1969; Bryologist 80: 518. 1977.
- Schübeler, F., Bot. Not. 1839: 9-12 (obit., bibl.).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 4: 562. 1938.
- Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 120. 1981 (bibl.).
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 171. 1903.
#### Eponymy
*Sommerfeldtia* \[sic\] H.C.F. Schumacher (1827); *Sommerfeltia* Flörke ex Sommerfelt (1827, *nom. rej.*); *Sommerfeltia* Lessing (1832, *nom. cons.*).
### Publications
##### n.12.418. Supplementum Florae lapponicae
**Title**
*Supplementum Florae lapponicae* quam edidit Dr. Georgius Wahlenberg auctore Sev. Christiano Sommerfelt... Christianiae \[Oslo\] (typis Borgianis et Gröndahlianis) 1826. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Suppl. Fl. lapp.*
**Notes**
*Original publ*: Georg \[Göran\] Wahlenberg (1780-1851), *Flora lapponica* 1812, see TL-1/1377.
*Publ*.: 1826 (p. xii: 12 Mar 1826), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-331, \[332, err.\], *pl. 1-3* (col. printed C. Boeck). *Copies*: B-S, BR, FH, G, H, HH, MICH, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA; IDC 6187. – For further details see Kleppa p. 267 and MD p. 224.
*Additional remarks*: *Bemækninger ved Supplementum Florae lapponicae*, Mag. Naturvid. 8(1): 165-166. 1827 (see MD); see also ib. 7(1): 184. 1826.