> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 820](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333959) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9996-1) LSID 9996-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167479) QID Q6167479 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spruner, Wilhelm von (1805-1874), German (Bavarian) pharmacist and plant collector; studied in a München pharmacy and at the University of Erlangen; assistant military pharmacist (later in charge of the military pharmacy in Athens) in the Greek army 1834-1843; military pharmacist in the Bavarian army 1844-1858, ultimately as "Oberapotheker ii. Klasse", in retirement in München. **Abbreviated name**: *Sprun.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spruner*\] #### Herbarium and types Spruner's personal herbarium was acquired in 1879 by H. Dingier at Aschaffenburg; it came with Dingler's herbarium to [[Collection B|B]] (almost entirely destroyed 1943). Duplicates from Greece (1840-1843) at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]] (destr.), [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 381, 3: 452, 6(2): 940; Barnhart 3: 313 (b. 28 Aug 1805, d. 30 Mai 1874); Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8824-8825; Hortus 3: 1204; Lasègue p. 337, 408; Urban-Berl. p. 400; Zander ed. 10, p. 720, ed. 11, p. 821. #### Biofile - Anon., Flora 22(Int. Bl.): 24. 1839 (Greek plants for exchange), 27: 175 (returns to München), 718 (promoted from Ingolstadt to Würzburg, Militär-Apothekergehülfe erster Klasse). 1844, 30: 655. 1847 (Unterapotheker ii. Klasse Germersheim). - Ascherson, P., Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 6: 582-584. 1906 (biogr. documentation). - Boissier, E., Fl. orient. 1: xiii. 1867. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 452. 1880 (coll.). - Spruner, W. v., Flora 25: 636-639. 1843 (letter to Tommasini on a botanical trip to the Parnassus). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 160. 1982. #### Handwriting Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 212. 1982. #### Eponymy *Sprunnera* C.H. Schultz-Bip. ex Walpers (1843) may honor this author, but no etymology was given.