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### Author
Tchihatcheff, Pierre de \[Chikhachef Petr Aleksandrovich; Tschihatcheff\] (1812-1890), Russian-born traveller, geographer and botanist of Bohemian descent; travelled in the Altai, Asia minor (1848-1858), Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Spain; resigned his diplomatic functions in 1844; resident in Paris from which he made his various trips.
**Abbreviated name**: *Tchihatcheff* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tchich.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]] (through Soc. bot. France); other material at [[Collection LE|LE]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(2): 679; Andrews p. 338-339; Backer p. 574; Barnhart 3: 365 (d. 1 Oct 1890); BM 5: 2079-2080, 8: 1290; Bossert p. 396; CSP 5: 926, 8: 1065, 11: 559, 13: 234; Herder p. 61; Jackson p. 378, 379; Morren ed. 10, p. 84; MW p. 493; Plesch p. 423; PR 9127; Quenstedt p. 425; Rehder 5: 837; Sotheby 735; TL-2/see E. Fenzl, H.R. Goeppert, 2185; TR 1403-1405; Tucker 1: 680.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bonplandia 6(2): 53. 1858 (cogn. Leopoldina J.G. Gmelin), 8: 112. 1860 (donated a church and a library to the farmers of his possessions Simenny, Kowrow, Wladimir); Bot. Zeit. 1: 302-303, 320. 1843 (Altai journey); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print: books 38: 328-330. 1966; Bull. Soc. bot. France 5: 312. 1858 (8th trip to Asia minor), 16: 357. 1869 (herb. T. in herb. Soc. bot. Fr.); Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 183: 565-570. 1955; Encycl. brit. ed. 11. 26: 475. 1911; Leopoldina 26: 215. 1890; Nat. Nov. 12: 470. 1890 (d.); Nature 43: 19-20. 1891 (obit.); Österr. bot. Z. 8: 408. 1858 (returned from 10 yrs in Asia minor), 41: 40. 1891 (d.); Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. ser. 2. 12: 765. 1890 (obit.).
- Boissier, E., Fl. Orient. 1: xix-xx. 1867.
- Cosson, E., Comp. fl. atl. 1: 93. 1881.
- Daubrée, C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 111: 623-626. 1890; Bull. Soc. géol. France ser. 3. 19: 662-664. 1891 (obit.).
- Lipschitz, S., Fl. URSS fontes 1950. 1975.
- Morot, L., J. Bot. Morot, 4: 432. 1890 (left a fund for expedition to Acad. Sci. Paris; d. 13 Oct 1890).
- Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 404. 1969 (no. 4082).
- Poggendorf, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1142-1143. 1863, 3: 1371. 1898.
- Voit, S.B. Akad. Wiss., München 21: 175-179. 1892 (obit.).
- Wagner, H, ed., Geogr. Jahrb. 14: 232-233. 1891 (obit.).
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 176-177. 1903, 3(3): 190, *pl. 122*. 1905.
- Zittel K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 408, 558. 1899.
- Žujovic, J.M., Ann. géol. Pénins. Balkan : 1-3. 1893 (obit.).
#### Composite works
Translator, A.H.R. Grisebach, *La végétation du globe*, 1877-1878, see TL-2/2185 and 7375.
#### Eponymy
*Neotchihalchewia* Rauschert (1982); *Tchihatchewia* F.J.A.N. Unger (1863); *Tchihatchewia* Boissier (1866); *Tschichatschevia* A.G. Vologdin (1955).
### Publications
##### n.13.850. Voyage scientifique dans l'Altai oriental
**Title**
*Voyage scientifique dans l'Altai oriental* et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine... par Pierre de Tchihatcheff... Paris (Chez Gide,...) 1845. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Voy. Altai orient.*
**Notes**
*Text*: 1845 (p. viii: 21 Aug 1844; possibly published in parts 1844-1845; we have, however, no firm indication of such issue), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-xxiv, \[xv-xvi\], \[1\]-466, \[468\]. Enumeratio plantarum 412-418, fossil pl., crypt. p. 397-392. Further botanical remarks in general text.
*Planches*: 1845 (id.), p. \[i\*\*-iv\*\*\], *pl. 1-19* (partie pittoresque), *pl. 25-35* (partie botanique, recent and fossil pl., col. liths.).
*Cartes et plans*: 1845 (id.), p. \[i\], 6 maps (4 itineraries, 2 col. geol. maps), *pl. 20-24* (mines), \[*1*\] geol., \[1 table des cartes et plans\].
*Copies*: HH, LC, NSUB, PH.
*Author* of text on fossil plants: Heinich Robert Goeppert (1800-1884), p.p. 379-390, *pl. 25-35* reprinted as *Description des végétaux fossiles* recueillies par M.P. de Tchihatcheff en Sibérie par le prof. Goeppert, Qu., 12 p., *11 pl*. 1845 (Flora Jun 1845, Bot. Zeit. 10 Oct 1845).
*German extract*: 1846, K.C. von Leonhard, *Bericht über Pierre de Tchihatcheff*: *Voyage scientifique dans l'Altai oriental*... Heidelberg (Akademische Verlagshandlung von J.C.B. Mohr) 1846, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-ii, \[1\]-140. *Copy*: Yale Univ. – Reprinted from Heidelberger Jahrb. Lit. 39(21): 321-336, 39(22): 337-352, 39(23): 353-368, 39(24): 369-384, 39(24): 385-400, 39(25): 401-414. 1846.
*Dutch extract*: Alg. Konst- Letterbode 1846(2): 3-9, 21-26, 35-39, 57-61, 70-78, 130-136, 179-186.
*Polish translation*: 1850-1851, n.v.
##### n.13.851. Études sur la végétation des hautes montagnes
**Title**
*Études sur la végétation des hautes montagnes* de l'Asie-mineure et de l'Arménie,... Extrait du Bulletin de la Société botanique de France... 1857 \[1858\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Mar 1858, p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. bot. France 4: 863-894. 1857 \[1858\].
##### n.13.852. Asie mineure
**Title**
*Asie mineure* description physique, statistique et archéologique de cette contrée... troisième partie *Botanique*... Paris (Gide, libraire-éditeur...) 1860. 2 vols. Oct. and atlas.
**Abbreviated title**: *Asie min., Bot.*
**Notes**
*1*: Oct-Nov 1860 (p. xli: 1 Jun 1860; BSbF Nov-Dec 1860; author donated a copy (2 vols. atlas) to Soc. bot. France on 9 Nov 1860); ÖbZ 1 Feb 1861, complete work), p. \[i\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-lvi, \[1\]-484.
*2*: Oct-Nov 1860 (t.p.; BSbF Nov-Dec 1860) p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-676. *Atlas*: Oct-Nov 1860 (t.p.), p. \[i-iii\], portr., *pl. 1-27* (views), *pl. 1-43* \[*44*\], (plants; uncol. liths. A. Riocreux, Fischer, Heyland).
*Copies*: B, BR, G, GB, HH, M, NY, PH. – Palaeontologie flore tertiaire moyenne, F. Unger, p. 319-325. *pl. 17*.
*Other issue*: 1866, Paris (édité par L. Guérin...) 1866. *Copy*: MO.
*1*: \[i\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-lvi, \[1\]-484.
*2*: \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-676.
*Notes*: for a list of the 9 volumes of the entire work see e.g. BM 5: 2080. – P.H. Davis and J.R. Edmondson, Notes R.B.G. Edinburgh 37: 279. 1979: "unreliable". – The *atlas* of 4, *Paléontologie*, contains a map with itineraries.
*Diagnoses plantarum orientalium* et observationes botanicae auctore Ed. Fenzl *in* P. de Tchihatcheff Asie mineure, IIIe partie, Paris (Gide,...) 1860, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-72. *Copies*: G, H.
*German extract*: 1887, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-188, *pl. 1-19. Copies*: HH-MH, NSUB, USGS. – *Klein-Asien*... Leipzig (G. Freytag), Prag (F. Tempsky) 1887. Oct. (*Klein-Asien*). – Das Wissen der Gegenwart vol. 64.
*Reconstructed itinerary*: H. Kiepert, *P. v. Tschihatscheff's* Reisen in Kleinasien und Armenien 1847-1863. Itinerare redigirt und mit einer neuer Construction der Karte von Kleinasien, Gotha (Justus Perthes) 1867, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-68, map. – Issued as Erg.-Heft 20 Peterm. Geogr. Mitth. 1867. *Copy*: BR.
##### n.13.853. Une page sur l'Orient
**Title**
*Une page sur l'Orient*... Paris (édité par L. Guérin et Cie...) 1868. Duod.
**Abbreviated title**: *Page Orient*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1868 (p. iii: 5 Oct 1868), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-346. *Copies*: G, NSUB. – Botany on p. 91-157.
##### n.13.854. Le Bosphore et Constantinople
**Title**
*Le Bosphore et Constantinople* avec perspectives des pays limitrophes... Paris (Librairie des Sciences naturelles... Th. Morgand...) 1864.
**Abbreviated title**: *Bosphore Constantinople*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1864, p. \[i\*-iv\*\], frontisp., \[1\]-589 \[590-592\], *8 pl*., 2 maps. *Copy*: NSUB. – "Végétation" p. 207-229.
##### n.13.855. Espagne, Algérie et Tunisie
**Title**
*Espagne, Algérie et Tunisie* lettres à Michel Chevalier.... Paris (Librarie J.-B. Baillière et fils...), Alger (Adolphe Jourdan), Madrid (Carlos Bailly-Baillière) 1880. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Esp. Alg. Tun.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1880 (p. xi: 1 Aug 1880; BSbF rev. Nov-Dec 1880), p. \[i\]-xx, map, \[1\]-595, \[596, err.\]. *Copies*: C, DNLM, G. – List of plants on p. 559-587.
*German transl*.: 1882 (Nat. Nov. 30 Nov 1883 sic), p. \[i-ii\], \[v\]-xx, \[1\]-531, \[532\], map.
*Copies*: HH-MH, NSUB. – *Spanien, Algerien und Tunis*. Briefe an Michel Chevalier... Deutsche, verbesserte und stark vermehrte Ausgabe... Leipzig (Th. Grieben's Verlag ...) 1882. Oct. Lists of plants on p. 559-587.