> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 881](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334020) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10088-1) LSID 10088-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57222) QID Q57222 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Steller \[Stöller\], Georg Wilhelm (1709-1746), German (Franconian) explorer, geographer and biologist; studied medicine in Halle 1731-1734; physician in the Russian army 1734, assistant to Johann Amman at the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1737; on the second Bering Expedition 1738-1742, with V. Bering in Kamchatka 1740, and on the St. Peter to Alaska 1741 ; worked in Petropavlovsk 1742-1744, died on the journey back to St. Petersburg. **Abbreviated name**: *Steiler* \[standard form in IPNI: *Steller*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]], including manuscripts. Botanical collections from Alaska lost. Some lichens from Kamtchatka at [[Collection GOET|GOET]] and [[Collection M|M]]. – Some of his collections (30) are at [[Collection LINN|LINN]], other specimens at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection H|H]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 116; Backer p. 548; Barnhart 3: 323 (b. 10 Mar 1709, d. 14 Nov 1749); BM 5: 2013, 8: 1244; Dryander 3: 557; DSB 13: 28-29 (S. Lindroth); Frank 3 (Anh.): 100; Hegi 5(2): 726; Herder p. 60; IH 2: (files); Lasègue p. 322, 357, 411, 503; MW suppl. p. 333; PR 8930, ed. 1: 9895; Rehder 1: 454; TL-2/see J.G. Gmelin, F. Ruysch; TR 1354-1364 (lists also mss.). #### Biofile - Alden and Ifft, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci. 20: 4-7. 1943. - Anon., Bonplandia 6: 55-56. 1858 (on letters Steiler to J.G. Gmelin). - Borodin, J., Trav. Mus. bot. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg 4: 113-114. 1908 (on explorations; eponymy). - Coats, A.M., Plant hunters 50-51. 1969. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 452. 1880 (coll. at LE). - Crowley, W.R., Morton Arbor. Quart. 12(3): 43. 1976. - Ewan, J., Regn. veg. 71: 38, 50, 54. 1970 (coll. Alaska; in Essays in Biohistory). - Ford, Covey, Where the sea breaks its back. The epic story of the pioneer naturalist and the discovery of Alaska. Boston-Toronto 1966, 206 p. - Fries, T.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 32. 1908, 1(3): 188, 196. 1909, 1(5): 227. 1911, 1(6): 258. 1912. - Herder, F. v., Bot. Jahrb. 9: 452-453. 1888 (notes on travels and bot. coll.). - Hünefeld, H., *in* Fränkische Lebensbilder 7: 209-221. 1977 (bibl., mss., major treatment). - Hultén, E., Fl. Kamchatka 8. 1927 (on coll. at LE); Bot. Not. 1940: 289-290, 295-296. 1940. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 179, 180. 1922. - Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 20. 1922 (30 specimens at LINN). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 700. 1985. - Plieninger, G.H.T., J.G. Gmelini Reliquias quae supersunt... 157-185. 1861 (letters). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1289-1290. 1898. - Raab, H., Z. Pilzk. 46: 108. 1968 (annotation from Kamchatka book on *Amanita muscaria*). - Reveal, J., *in* Hafen et al., Western America ed. 3: 380. 1970 (note). - Rowell, M., Taxon 29: 26. 1980 (corr. with L.). - Schwarzbach, M., Auf den Spuren unserer Naturforscher 260. 1981. - Shetler, S.G., Komarov Bot. Inst. 31, 44. 1967. - Stejneger, L., Georg Wilhelm Steller, the pioneer of Alaskan natural history, Cambridge, Mass. 1936, xxiii, 623 p., *29 pl*. (main biogr.). - Sutton, A. & M., Natural History 65: 485-491. 1956; Steller of the North, New York, Chicago, San Francisco 1961, 231 p. - Urness, C., A naturalist in Russia 188 \[index\]. 1967 (Pallas and St.). #### Handwriting Central Herbarium USSR 123. 1968; Stejneger, L. (1936), *pl. iii*. #### Eponymy *Rellesta* N.S. Turczaninow (1849); *Stellera* Linnaeus (1753); *Stellera* N.S. Turczaninow (1840); *Stelleropsis* Pobedin (1950). ### Publications ##### n.12.955. Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka **Title** Georg Wilhelm Stellers... *Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka* dessen Einwohnern, deren Sitten, Nahmen, Lebensart und verschiedenen Gewohnheiten herausgegeben von J.B.S.... Frankfurt und Leipzig (bey Johann Georg Fleischer) 1774. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Beschr. Kamtschatka*. **Notes** *Editor* and author of biography of Steller (p. \[1\]-24): J.B. Scherer. *Publ*.: 1774 (NZgS 27 Nov 1775), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-24, \[1-4\], \[1\]-384, \[1\]-71, \[72\], *15 pl. Copies*: H-UB, HH, NSUB. – For a complete collation and notes see Lada-Mocarski (1969); "von den Bäumen, Stauden und Pflanzen des Landes Kamtschatka" p. 74-96. *Facsimile ed*.: 1974, ed. H. Beck, p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xxiii new preface material followed by reprints of *Reise von Kamtschatka nach Amerika* (1793), and *Ausf. Beschr. sonderb. Meerthier*. (1753). *Copy*: Univ. Illinois. *Ref*.: Lada-Mocarski, V., Bibl. books Alaska 90-92. 1969.