> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 231](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212273) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10541-1) LSID 10541-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104633) QID Q104633 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thal, Johannes (1542/43-1583), German (Erfurt) botanist and physician in Nordhausen. **Abbreviated name**: *Thal* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thal*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 37: 642-643 (E. Jacobs); AG 6(2): 494; Ainsworth p. 186; Backer p. 580; Barnhart 3: 369 (d. 18 Jul 1583); BM 5: 2088; Dryander 3: 159; Frank 3 (Anh.): 102; GR p. 144; Hegi 4(1): 392; Herder p. 189; Jackson p. 26; LS 26445; NI alph.; PR 1439 (Camerarius), 9175, ed. 1: 1648, 5789, 10144; Rehder 1: 372;TL-2/11.343-11.344; Tucker 1: 1683. #### Biofile - Bartsch, A., Harz 9-10: 20-23. 1984. - Burdet, H.M., Ouvr. bot. anciens nos. 083, 663. 1985. - Drude, O., Hercyn. Florenbezirk 2-3, 9-10. 1902 (Veg. Erde 6). - Förstemann, E.G., F.C. Lesser's hist. Nachr.... Nordhausen 211-212. 1860. - Greene, E.L., Plant World 8: 115-121. 1905 ("the earliest local flora"). - Irmisch, Th., Progr. Fürstl. Schwarzb. Gymnasium Sondershausen 1862: 44-58; Z. Harz-Ver. Gesch. Altertumsk. 8: 149-161. 1875. - Lesser, J. Epistola de vita Johannis Thalii, Nordhusae 1747. - Rauschert, S., Hercynia ser. 2. 14: 361-374. 1977 (400 years *Sylva hercynia*); Johannes Thal Sylva hercynia, neu herausgegeben, ins Deutsch übersetzt gedeutet und erklärt, Leipzig 1977 (main modern study, full details accompanied by facs. ed.). - Schulz, A., Z. Naturw. 85: 1-9. 1915 (noes on *Sylva hercyn.*). - Schulze, E., Z. Naturw. 77: 399-470. 1904 (Index Thalianus), 78: 194-204. 1906. - Wein, K., Mitt. thüring. bot. Ver. 28: 76-79. 1911, 38: 59-76. 1929; Bot. Centralbl. 29(2): 279-305. 1912; Hercynia 1: 3-7, 174-179. 1937. - Zaunick, R. & K. Wein, Arch. Gesch. med. Naturw. 30: 401-406. 1938 (letter to Thurneysser). #### Eponymy *Thalia* Linnaeus (1753) and *Thalianthus* Klotzsch ex Koernicke (1862) were likely named for this author. ### Publications ##### n.14.006. Sylva hercynia **Title** *Sylva hercynia*, sive catalogus plantarum sponte nascentium in montibus, et locis vicinis Hercyniae, quae respicit Saxoniam, conscriptus singulari studio,... Francofurto ad Moenum \[Frankfurt a.M.\] 1588. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Sylva hercyn.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1588, p. \[1\]-133, \[134\]. *Copies*: G, NY. *Facsimile ed*.: 1977, neu herausgegeben, ins Deutsch übersetzt gedeutet und erklärt von Stephan Rauschert, Leipzig 1977, facsimile *of Silva hercynia* with 286 p. translation, introduction and annotations, 300 copies. *Copies*: FAS, G, H (see Taxon 29: 180. 1980). *Icones*: J. Camerarius, *Icones* accurate nunc primum delineatae praecipuarum stirpium, quarum descriptiones tam in horto quam in Sylva hercynia suis locis habentur,... Francofurto ad Moenum 1588, p. \[i\], *pl. 1-17, 1-9, pl. 1-9* illustrate Thai's *Sylva hercyn.*). *Copy*: NY. *Note*: The Sylva hercynia was issued simultaneously with J. Camerarius, *Hortus medicus et philosophicus* Francofurti ad Moenum 1588, p. \[i-xv\], 1-184. *Copy*: NY.