> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 245](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212287) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10553-1) LSID 10553-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1539346) QID Q1539346 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Theobald, Gottfried Ludwig (1810-1869), German (Hessen) botanist, geologist and teacher; studied theology in Marburg and Halle 1927-1931; pastor at Hanau 1831-1839, private teacher at Montpellier 1839-1843; high school teacher for natural sciences and geography at Hanau 1843-1850; suspended for political reasons 1850 (dismissed 1854), teacher at Genève 1852-1854 and pastor of its German protestant community; from 1854 natural history teacher at the county school at Chur, Graubünden. **Abbreviated name**: *Theobald* \[standard form in IPNI: *Theob.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CHUR|CHUR]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection M|M]] (lichens), [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 37: 679-680; AG 3: 86 (uncle of Wilhelm Pfeffer); Barnhart 3: 371; BM 1: 323, 5: 2090; CSP 5: 949-950, 8: 1072; De Toni 4: lv; DTS 1: 297; GR p. 50; LS 26492-26494; Nordstedt p. 30; PR (alph.), 1578; Quenstedt p. 427; TL-2/1045; Urban-Berl. p. 315. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 27: 672. 1869 (d.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print, books 236: 860-861. 1964; Österr. bot. Z. 19: 353. 1869 (d.). - Briquet, J., Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 446-450. 1940 (biogr., epon., main botanical bibl.). - Burdet, H.M., Saussurea 6: 29. 1975 (portr.). - Fischer, E., *in* Bibl. natl. Suisse 4(5): 29, 42, 43, 48, 81, 83, 130, 154. 1901 (bibl.). - Murr, J. Neu. Übers. Farn- Bl.-Pfl. Vorarlberg xxii. 1923. - Poggendorf, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1334-1335. 1898 (bibl., b. 21 Dec 1810, d. 15 Sep 1869). - Schwippel, K., Gaea 27: 222-224. 1891. - Szadrowsky, H., Jahres-Ber. naturf. Ges. Graubünden ser. 2. 15: 85-135. 1870 (obit., list publ.). - Walkmeister, Chr., Ber. Thätigk. St. Gall. naturw. Ges. 1892-1893: 327-360. 1894 (T. and the geol. expl. of Graubünden). - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 555, 611, 648. 1899. #### Composite works Co-author with J.H. Cassebeer (1785-1850) of *Fl. Wetterau* 1847-1849, TL-2/1045. We have still not seen a copy of this book; the pagination formula given by us must be erroneous; all sources give 160 p. The book remained incomplete; part 1, p. \[1\]-80, was announced by Flora (21 Mar 1847), part 2, p. 81-160 came out in 1849. #### Note - (1) *Bündner Flechten*, a series of papers in Jahresber. naturf. Ges. Graubünden ser. 2. 3: 102-165. 1858 (Nachtrag by E. Kilias ib. 5: 80. 1860), 2. Nachtrag ib. 6: 245-249. 1861, 3. Nachtrag ib. 11: 168-171. 1866 (also Bündner Flechten, by Chr. G. Bruggen on p. 171-182). - (2) For William Theobald (1829-1908), who published 26 binomials in Francis Mason, *Burmah*, ed. 4, 1882-1883, TL-2/5584, see DJ. Mabberley, Taxon 34: 152-156. 1985 ("Unwitting reformer of botanical nomenclature?"). #### Eponymy *Theobaldia* O. Heer (1877). ### Publications ##### n.14.078. Die Flechten der Wetterau **Title** *Die Flechten der Wetterau*... \[Naturh. Abh. Wetterau, Festgabe, 1858\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1858, p. \[313\]-390. *Copies*: Almborn, B, G, H-UB. – Naturh. Abh. Wetterau, Festgabe 1858, p. \[313\]-390. 1858.