> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 290](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212332) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10624-1) LSID 10624-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1369447) QID Q1369447 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thonning, Peter (1775-1848), Danish botanist; studied medicine and natural sciences at Copenhagen; on a botanical expedition to Danish Guinea \[now in Ghana\] with O. Haaslund Smith 1799-1803 studying natural resources and dye plants; after 1807 in various functions, from 1829 co-director of the Royal Natural History Museum. **Abbreviated name**: *Thonn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thonn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]] (1027 sheets extant); main set destroyed 1807; other material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection P|P]]-JU, [[Collection S|S]]. – Copenhagen collection (with that of Isert, q.v.) available on microfiche IDC 2203 (see F.N. Hepper 1976); for a description of the material see C.F. Schumacher, Beskr. Guin. pl. 1827). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 583; Hortus 3: 1205; Lasègue p. 316, 345, 414, 504; PR 8599, ed. 1: 9464; TL-1/1208; TL-2/11.360 and see P.E. Isert and H.C.F. Schumacher; Zander ed. 11, p. 825. #### Biofile - Christensen, C., Dansk Bot. Hist. 1: 117, 195, 223. 1924. - Hepper, F.N., The West African herbaria of Isert and Thonning. A taxonomic revision and index to the IDC microfiche, Kew 1976, 227 p. (portr., biogr. sketch, full details on coll.). - Hornemann, J., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 585. 1837. - Junghans, J., Bot. Tidsskr. 57: 310-355. 1961, 58: 82-122. 1962 (on collections at C). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 731. 1985. - Vallot, J, Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 193-194. 1882. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 110. 1880 (bibl., b. 9 Oct 1775, d. 29 Jan 1848). #### Composite works See Warming (1800, p. 100) for Thonning's share in publishing some of M. Vahl's works. #### Handwriting Bot. Tidsskr. 57: 313. 1961. #### Eponymy *Thonningia* Vahl (1810).