> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 84](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212126) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10281-1) LSID 10281-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610016) QID Q21610016 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Suhr, Johannes Nicolaus von (1792-1847), German/Danish (Danish Holstein) algologist and soldier in the Danish army in Schleswig; from 1834 as captain; from 1842 in Rendsburg. **Abbreviated name**: *Suhr* \[standard form in IPNI: *Suhr*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (main part; mainly destr.), [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]] (minor part; extant); other material at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection HBG|HBG]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection REG|REG]], [[Collection W|W]]. *Original drawings and mss*.: [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]]. *Correspondence* with Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Frölich (1769-1845) at [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]] (destr.?). *Exsiccatae*: Mertens, Frölich & von Suhr, *Hydrophytorum tarn indigenorum quam exoticorum collectio, Sammlung von einheimischen und auswärtigen Hydrophyten* 1829; contributed also to Threde, *Die Algen der Nordsee und die mit denselben vorkommenden Zoophyten* 1812. (Christiansen (1936) mentions a set in the municipal library of Hamburg). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 345 (b. 16 Oct 1792, d. 29 Mar 1847); Biol.-Dokum. 17: 9116; Christiansen p. 320 \[index\]; CSP 5: 884; De Toni 1: cxxi; IH 2: (files); KR p. 675; Nordstedt suppl. p. 15; PR (alph.); Urban-Berl. p. 269. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 5: 560, 841-850. 1847 (detailed biogr.); Flora 30: 249. 1847 (d.). - Fischer-Benzon, R.J.D. v., *in* P. Prahl, Krit. Fl. Schlesw.-Holst. 2(1): 57, Nachtr. 7. 1889. - Hansen, A., Bot. Tidsskr. 69: 214. 1974. - Heering, W., Schr. naturw. Ver. Schlesw.-Holst. 12(2): 241-250. 1902 (biogr.). - Ilg, W., Hoppea 42: 98, 234, 344. 1984. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 448. 1864. - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 558. 1969 (coll.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names 711. 1984. - Newton, L.M., Phycol. Bull. 1: 18. 1952 (material at Kiel and Berlin). - Schellenberg, G., Beih. bot. Centralbl. 38(2): 397. 1921 (herbarium partly at KIEL but including original drawings). - Urban, I., Bot. Jahrb. 14, Beibl. 32: 32. 1891 (herbarium divided, one fifth to KIEL, remainder to B; details on coll.). #### Note - (1) Suhr's nationality was Danish; he was a soldier in the Danish army, obtained his military training in Rendsburg (Holstein) and Copenhagen and was born and died on Danish territory. - (2) Suhr's main publications were all in journals: his *Beiträge zur Algenkunde* appeared *in* Flora 19: 337-350, *pl. 3-4.* 14 Jun 1836, 22: 65-75. 7 Feb 1839, 23: 257-265. 7 Mai, 273-282. 14 Mai, 289-304. 21 Mai 1840; *in* Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 2. 7: 171-176. 1837 and *in* Nova Acta Leop. 18 (suppl. 1): 273-288, *pl. 1-3.* 1841 (IDC 6216), probably publ. late 1841 (Soc. géol. France rd 10-24 Jan 1842; rev. Flora 7 Apr 1842). – For further papers see e.g. CSP. #### Eponymy *Suhria* J. Agardh ex Endlicher (1843).