> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 764](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333903) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9937-1) LSID 9937-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92108) QID Q92108 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Soyaux, Hermann (1852-?), German (Silesian) gardener and traveller; in Western tropical Africa (Loango-Expedition) 1873-1876 for the Deutsche afrikanische Gesellschaft; in charge of coffee plantations in Gabon 1879-1885, later in charge of the Berlin office of the German Kolonialverein; in Brazil in charge of the settlement of Bom Retiro 1888; co-founder of the Centro economico of Rio Grande do Sul 1904-? **Abbreviated name**: *Soyaux* \[standard form in IPNI: *Soyaux*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection GOET|GOET]] (Gabon 1880-1881); further material in [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection COI|COI]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]] (Loango 1875-1882), [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection P|P]] (273 nos.), [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection Z|Z]]. – For itinerary and treatment of the Gabon plants see Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 192-193. 1882, and Bot. Jahrb. 14: 280-282. 1892. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 306; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 343; Morren ed. 10, p. 113 (in Gabon); Rehder 1: 491; Tucker 1: 661; Urban-Berl. p. 163, 261, 282, 291, 314, 399. #### Biofile - Ascherson, P., Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 22: xviii-xix, 84-87. 1880 (on plants collected in Gabon). - Degener, H.A.L., Wer ist's ed. 4: 1344. 1909. - Embacher, F., Lex. Reisen 274. 1882. - Gossweiler, J., Bol. Soc. Broter. 13: 303-304. 1839 (on Angolan coll.). - Gürcke, M., Bot. Jahrb. 14: 280-282. 1891 (lists publications on his collections). - Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., Webbia 19(2): 863. 1965 (lists herbaria holding isotypes). - Soyaux, H., Z. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 10(1): 62-70 (Vegetations-Skizzen von der Loango-Küste). - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 192. 1882 (itin. 1873-1876). - Wagenitz, G., Ind. coll. princ. herb. Gott. 159. 1982. #### Eponymy *Soyauxia* D. Oliver (1882). ### Publications ##### n.12.494. Aus West-Afrika **Title** *Aus West-Afrika* 1873-1876. Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen... Leipzig (F.A. Brockhaus) 1879-1880, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *West-Afrika*. **Notes** *1*: 1879, p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix\], \[1\]-350. *2*: 1879, p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-229, \[230, err.\], 1 map. *Copies*: HH, H-UB, NSUB. – Preceded by *Der verlorene Weltteil* 1879, and followed by *Deutsche Arbeit in Afrika* 1888.