> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 353](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212395) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10667-1) LSID 10667-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55073307) QID Q55073307 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb (1769-1857), German (Thuringian) naturalist and traveller, with J.C. von Hoffmannsegg in Portugal 1796; lecturer Univ. Leipzig 1801; with A.J. v. Krusenstern on a voyage of circumnavigation as surgeon and naturalist 1803-1808; from 1808 practicing medicine but also active as a private scientist in Leipzig, Göttingen, Mühlhausen and Dresden, ultimately private teacher at Mühlhausen. **Abbreviated name**: *Tilesius* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tilesius*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]] (Herder 1888 "einige... Pflanzen"), [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection H|H]] (20 specimens in herb. Steven), [[Collection H|H]]-Ach (lich.); sent also material to G.F.W. Meyer at Göttingen. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 38: 298-299; AG 3: 555; Barnhart 3: 384; BM 5: 2115; Bret. p. 314; CSP 5: 994-995; Herder p. 289; KR p. 718; Langman p. 738; LS 26833-26834; PR 9349, ed. 1: 10313; Quenstedt p. 430; Rehder 2: 532; Tucker 1: 691; Urban-Berl. p. 291. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 1: 223. 1853, 5: 225-226. 1857; (obit.), 6: 340. 1858 (cogn. Leop. Forsterus I; biogr. sketch); Bot. Not. 1858: 14 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 15: 431-432. 1857 (obit.); Brit. Mus. gen. print. books 239: 145-146. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 189: 318-319. 1963; Flora 40: 464. 1857 (obit. not.); Oester. bot. W. 7: 195. 1857. - Berthel, D.E. et al., Materialien der Brasilien-Expedition 1821-1829 G.H. von Langsdorff, Berlin (Völkerk. Abh. 7) 1979, p. 150, 204. - Borodin, J., Trav. Mus. bot. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 121, 205. 1908. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 442 \[index\]. 1980. - Gertz, O., K. Fysiogr. Sällsk. Lund 1772-1940. Hist. overs. 229. 1940. - Herder, F. von, Bot. Jahrb. 9: 453. 1888 (pl. in herb. Ledebour, LE). - Hirsch, A., Biogr. Lex. hervorrag. Ärzte ed. 3. 5: 589-590. 1962. - Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 297-298 (coll. localities in Alaska). - Müller, R.H.W. & R. Zaunick, Friedr. Traug. Kützing 21, 244, 296. 1960. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1107. 1863 (b. 17 Jul 1769, d. 17 Mai 1857), 7a (suppl.): 690-691. 1971. #### Composite works *Fucus tubulosus*, Tilesius in litt., *in* C.A. Agardh, Sp. alg. 1(2): 219. 1822 (KR p. 718). #### Handwriting E. Hultén, Fl. Kamtchatka 1: 7. 1927. #### Eponymy *Tilesia* G.F.W. Meyer (1818). ### Publications ##### n.14.520. Musae paradisiacae **Title** *Musae paradisiacae* quae nuper Lipsiae floruit icones iv exhibuit Guilielmus Gottlieb Tilesius med. stud. Lipsiae, 1792. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mus. paradis.* **Notes** *Commercial issue*: 1792, p. \[1\]-14, *pl. 1-4* (coll. copp. auct.). *Copies*: B-S, G, NSUB. *Thesis issue*: n.v., see BM 5: 2115. ##### n.14.521. Naturhistorische Früchte **Title** *Naturhistorische Früchte* der ersten kaiserlich-russischen unter dem Kommando der Herrn v. Krusenstern glücklich vollbrachten Erdumsegelung gesammelt von Dr. Tilesius Naturalisten der Expedition... St. Petersburg 1813. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Naturhist. Früchte*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1813, p. \[i\], \[1\]-160, *pl. 1, 2, 23, 94, 95. Copies*: B-S, PH. – A reissue with a new title-page of part of A.J. Krusenstern, "*Reise um die Welt* in den Jahren 1803-1806", ... 1810-1813. – Mainly zoological.