> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 17](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066357) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12985-1) LSID 12985-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533348) QID Q533348 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wahlenberg, Georg \[from 1804: Göran\] (1780-1851), Swedish botanist; Dr. med. Uppsala 1806; botanical demonstrator Uppsala 1814; titular professor 1826; regular professor of botany and medicine ib., succeeding C.P. Thunberg 1829; travelled in Pommern 1796, Gotland 1799, Lapland and northern Norway (1800, 1802, 1807, 1810), Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Carpathics (Hungary) 1811-1814; early plant geographer and staunch Linnaean. **Abbreviated name**: *Wahlenb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wahlenb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-Thunb; other material in [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection LD|LD]] (3000), [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SBT|SBT]] (Carex, orig.), [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. – A mss. *autobiography* by W. is at [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB (see Palmblad (1852); *diaries and notebooks* (Southern Sweden 1821) in [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. – *Letters* Kalmar Stifts- och Gymnasiebibl. (2). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 512; Barnhart 3: 619; BL 2: 479, 549, 729; BM 5: 2249-2250, 8: 1383; Bossert p. 423; CSP 6: 234-235; De Toni 1: cxxvii, 2: cxix; DSB 14: 116-117 (G. Eriksson); DTS 1: 318, 6(4): 205-206; Frank 3 (Anh.): 110; GR p. 483-484, *pl*. \[*39*\], cat. p. 73; Hawksworth p. 186; Hegi 5(2): 1341, 6(1): 388; Herder p. 168, 193, 195, 196, 326; Hortus 3: 1206; Jackson p. 126, 335, 339, 344; Kanitz no. 107; Kelly p. 235; KR p. 741-745 (b. 1 Oct 1780, d. 22 Mar 1851); Lasègue p. 318, 337, 392, 403, 427, 502; LS 28171-28175; MD 235-237; MW p. 518; NI 2092; Nordstedt p. 31; Plesch p. 454; PR 9910-9918, and see indexes, ed. 1: 10882-10895 and see indexes; Quenstedt p. 449; Rehder 5: 897; SBC p. 134; SO add. 829c, d, 2659, 2691-2692; Sotheby 800; Stevenson p. 1261; TL-1/947, 1377-1378; TL-2/1871, 9938, 14.352 (no. 22), see L.L. Laestadius, C.P. Thunberg (herb.); TR 1537-1540; Tucker 1: 727; Urban-Berl. p. 269, 292, 316, 407; Zander ed. 10, p. 729, ed. 11, p. 832. #### Biofile - Aberstén, S., Göteborgs K. Vet.-Vitterh.-Samh. Handl. ser. 4. 32(2): 29. 1928. - Albertson, N., Bot. Not. 1945(1): 20-32 (trip to Västergötland 1821). - Almquist, E., Flora Upsaliensis 14-16. 1965. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 9: 376. 1851 (d.), 10: 392. 1852 (reorganization professorships after W.'s death; E. Fries, so far teaching "Oeconomia practica", now teacher botany and practical economy); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 251: 591-592. 1965; Flora 34: 319. 1851 (d.); Österr. bot. W. 1: 185. 1851 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 2: 143-145. 1852 (1853). - Borgman, S., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 49(1-2): 337-347. 1955 (on mss. Svensk Växtgeografi). - Dahl, O., Nyt Mag. Nat.-vid., Oslo 69: 11-19. 1934 (portr.). - Erdtman, G., Sv. Linnésällsk. Årsskr. 28: 42, 45 (portr.), 46. 1945. - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 273, 318. 1969; Elias Fries och den romantiska biologien, Lychnos Bibl. 20: 98, 158, 180, 188, 249, 285, 286, 288-291, 297, 301, 304, 306, 307, 309-313, 322, 324, 330, 424, 430, 436, 443. 1962. - Fries, R.E., et al., Short hist. bot. Sweden, frontisp., p. 69-70, 116. 1950. - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world no. 061. 1984. - Gertz, O., Bot. Not. 1933: 128-137. 1933; K. Fysiogr. Sällsk. Lund 1772-1940; Hist. överbl. 117. 1940; Bot. Not. 1942: 113-152 (diary notes). - Hård av Segerstad, F., Botaniska strövtåg i Värmland 17-19. 1948 (biogr., portr.). - Högrell, B., Bot. hist. 1: 234. 1886. - Hooker, J.D., London J. Bot. 5: 528. 1846 (visit with Wahlenberg). - Hornschuch, C.F., Flora 2(2): 442. 1819 (on W.'s trip to S. Sweden and publ.), 6(1): 252-253. 1823 (continues *Sv. bot.*), 7(2): 443. 1824 (works on a Flora suecica; to be published in the summer \[1824\]), 8(1): 217 (influence on Hedwig-Schwägrichen), 12(2): 735. 1829 (definitive app. Uppsala succeeding Thunberg), 14(2): 48. 1831 (Carex for Hoppe). - Kanitz, A., Bonplandia 10: 364. 1862. - Krook, H., Nationen och hembygden 8: 188-211. 1960; Angår oss Linné? 104-115. 1971. - Laundon. J.R., Lichenologist 11: 18. 1979. - Lindman, S., Sv. män kvinn. 8: 143-144. 1955 (biogr., portr.). - Lindroth, S., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Hist. 2: 424-429. 1967. - Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekabinett i Sverige 212-213, 407 \[index\]. 1952. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 770. 1985. - Lundqvist, Å., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 75: 307, 308, 309. 1981 (provincial fl.); Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 1975-1977: 46. 1981 (portr.). - Lundström, A.N., Tal vid aftäckandet af Göran Wahlenbergs och Elias Fries byster i Linnésalen i Upsala Botaniska Trädgård den 3. Oktober 1899. - Mennema, J., Taxon 34: 115-117. 1985 (first vegetation map 1812). - Palmblad, F.W., Biogr. lexic. 19: 157-231. 1852 (abstract from mss. autobiogr. UPS-UB). - Pax, F., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Karpathen 10. 1898. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr. lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1242-1243. 1863. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 519. 1977 (coll. bryoph.). - Skottsberg, C., *in* Nordisk Familjebok ed. 3. 19: 1286. 1933. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 172-173. 1982. - Wikström, E., Årsberättelse 1829: 179. 1831, 1851: 295, 296. 1855; K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1851: 431-505. 1853 (obit., bibl.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 75-76. 1903, 3(3): lxviii-lxix, *pl. 45.* 1905 (portr., bibl.). - Zittel, K.A. v., Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 545, 804. 1899. #### Composite works - (1) Editor of J.W. Palmstruch, *Svensk botanik* 9(4-12), 1823-1825, 1826-1829 and 11(1-3), 1830, TL-2/7247. - (2) Pehr Conrad Afzelius (1817-1850), author *Novitiae florae Gotlandicae P.I.* 1844, diss., p. \[1\]-16, defended under Wahlenberg. - (3) Carl Andersson (1818-1846), author, *Observationes stirpium circa Christinehamn provenientium*, 1842, diss. p. \[1\]-10, defended under Wahlenberg. - (4) Magnus Huss (1807-1890), author, *Om möjligheten att, enligt vegetabiliernes naturliga analogier, a priori bestämma deras egenskaper* och verkningar på menskliga organismen, 1834, diss. part 1, p. \[1\]-16, \[17-18\], defended under Wahlenberg. - (5) Carl Josua Wretholm (1802-1866), author, as (4) part 2, 1834, p. \[1\]-19-31 \[33-34\], defended under Wahlenberg. - (6) Carl Fredrik Säve (1812-1876), *Syn. fl. Gothl* see TL-2/9983, defended under Wahlenberg as praeses. #### Commemorative medal 1862, cast by R. Swed. Acad. Sci., impressed by Lea Ahlborn. #### Eponymy (genera) *Wahlenbergia* H.A. Schrader ex A.W. Roth (1821, *nom. cons.*); *Wahlenbergia*. Blume (1823); *Wahlenbergia* H.C.F. Schumacher (1827); (journal): *Wahlenbergia*, Scripta Botanica Umensia. University of Umeå, Sweden. Vol. 1-x. 1975-x. ### Publications ##### n.16.516. Geografisk och ekonomisk beskrifning om Kemi Lappmarki **Title** *Geografisk och ekonomisk beskrifning om Kemi Lappmarki* Vesterbottens höfdingedöme. Med geografisk karta... Stockholm (Tryckt hos Carl Dehlén) 1804. **Abbreviated title**: *Geogr. beskr. Kemi Lappm.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1804, p. \[1\]-77, \[1, err.\], map. *Copy*:Peterson. ##### n.16.517. Tractatio anatomica **Title** *Tractatio anatomica* de sedibus materiarum immediatarum in plantis. Quam praeside C.P. Thunberg... pro gradu medico in Academia Upsaliensi publico subjicit examini auctor Georg. Wahlenberg... In Auditorio botanico d. iv Jun. mdcccvi hor. ante post merid. sol. Upsaliae (Typis Edmannianis) \[1806\]. Qu. (4 parts 1806-1807). **Abbreviated title**: *Tract. anat.* **Notes** *Authorship*: G. Wahlenberg author of all four parts; first part defended by Wahlenberg under C.P. Thunberg; parts 2-4 defended by C. Svedelius, J.U. Nyberg, S. Kjellberg. \[*1*\]: 4 Jun 1806, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-24, \[25\], 26. *2*: 3 Dec 1806, p. \[i-ii\], \[25\], \[26\]-38. – "*Tractatio*... plantis. Cujus sectionem secundam ... publice proponit Georg. Wahlenberg M. Doct.... respondente Casparo Svedelio". *3*: 8 Dec 1806, p. \[i-ii\], \[39\]-58. – "*Tractatio*... plantis. Cujus sectionem tertiam... publice proponit Georg. Wahlenberg M. Doct.... respondente Johanne Ulr. Nyberg ..." *4*: 11 Mar 1807, p. \[i-ii\], \[59\]-74. – "*Tractatio*... plantis. Cujus sectionem quartam... publice proponit Georg Wahlenberg M. Doct.... respondente Svenone Kjellberg ..." *Copies*: B-S, LC, LD-UB, NY, Peterson, USDA. – See KR p. 744, no. 24 for Swedish and German revisions. – The B-S copy has a general t.p. and index, p. \[i-ii\] to the four parts: *De Sedibus materiarum immediatarum in plantis tractatio*... Upsaliae (Typis Edmannianis) 1806 et 1807. ##### n.16.518. Flora lapponica **Title** Georgii Wahlenberg... *Flora lapponica* exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas, in Lapponiis suecicis scilicet Umensi, Pitensi, Lulensi, Tornensi et Kemensi nec non Lapponiis norvegicis scilicet Nordlandia et Finmarkia utraque indigenas, et itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807 et 1810 denuo investigatas... Berolini (in Taberna Libraría Scholae realis) 1812. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. lapp.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr-Mai 1812 (p. \[iii\]: 20 Dec 1811; Allg. Konst. Letterb. 3 Jul 1812; Leipzig Easter Fair 1812), p. \[i\]-lxvi, chart to p. lxv, col. map, ("1"), chart temp. ("2"), \[1\]-550, *pl. 1-30* (uncol. copp. author). *Copies*: B, BR, G, H, HH, LD, MICH, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA; IDC 5797. – *Note* (by O. Almborn): A fundamental work in plant geography. In the "Introductio" and the "mappa botanico-geographia" terms such as Lapponia (regio) alpina, r. subalpina, r. subsylvatica, r. sylvatica and limes nivalis are here used for the first time. *Supplement*: 1826 see S.C. Sommerfelt, *Supplementum Florae Lapponicae*... Christianiae (Typis Borgianis et Gröndahlianis). Oct., see TL-2/12.418. ##### n.16.519. De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia septentrionali **Title** Georgii Wahlenberg... *De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia septentrionali* inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentriones comparatis tentamen... Turici Helvetorum \[Zürich\] (Impensis Orell, Fuessli et Socc.) 1813. **Abbreviated title**: *Veg. clim. Helv. sept.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1813 (p. \[iii\]: 8 Mar 1813), p. \[i\]-xcviii (Vegetado et clima Helvetiae septentrionalis), \[1\]-200 (Plantae in Helvetia septentrionali... anno 1812 observatae), *pl. 1-3 *(chart altit., id. temp., bot. pl.). *Copies*: B-S, G, H, HH, LD, NY, USDA. ##### n.16.520. Flora carpatorum principalium **Title** Georgii Wahlenberg... *Flora carpatorum principalium* exhibens plantas in montibus carpaticis inter flumina Waagum et Dunajetz eorumque ramos Arvam et Popradum crescentes, cui praemittitur tractatus de altitudine, vegetatione, temperatura et meteoris horum montium in genere... Göttingae \[Göttingen\] (impensis Vandenhöck et Ruprecht) 1814. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. carpat. princ.* **Notes** *Publ*.: late 1814 (p. \[iii\]: 29 Aug 1814; Sayre (SY p. 50) could find as earliest date of publication 9 Apr 1815, date of Leipzig Easter Fair), p. \[i\]-cxviii, \[1, err.\], \[1\]-408, *pl. 1-4* (1: map, 2: chart, 3-4: plants). *Copies*: B, B-S, BR, G, H, HH, LD, M, MO, NY(2), U, USDA; IDC 5798. *Ref*.: Györffy, Szepesi Hírnök 52(13): 1-3. 1914. ##### n.16.521. Flora upsaliensis **Title** *Flora upsaliensis* enumerans plantas circa Upsaliam sponte crescentes. Enchiridion excursionibus studiosorum upsaliensium accomodatum... Upsaliae (Typis et impensis R. Acad. Typographorum) 1820. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. upsal.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1820 (Flora 21 Nov 1820, first publ.), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vii, \[viii\], \[1-2, expl. folded loose map (often lacking), err.\], map, \[1\]-495. *Copies*: B-S, BR, FH, G, H, HH, M, MICH, MO(2), NY, PH, US, USDA. *Ref*.: Anon., Flora 4(2): 445-456. 7 Aug 1821 (rev.). - Sprengel, V.P.J., Neue Entd. Pflanzenk. 2: 253-255. 1821 (rev.). ##### n.16.522. Ytterligare Anmärkningar om Ölands Natur **Title** *Ytterligare Anmärkningar om Ölands Natur*... Stockholm (Tryckte hos J.P. Lindhs Enka) 1822. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1822, p. \[1\]-16. *Copies*: BR, G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1821(2): 305-319. – Appendix to A. Ahlquist, *Anmärkningar om Ölands fysiska beskaffenhet och vegetation* ib. 1822(2): 278-304. ##### n.16.523. Flora suecica **Title** *Flora suecica* enumerans plantas Sueciae indigenas cum synopsi classium ordinumque, characteribus generum, differentiis specierum, synonymis citationibusque selectis, locis regionibusque natalibus, descriptionibus habitualibus nomina incolarum et qualitates plantarum illustrantibus post Linnaeum edita... Upsaliae (suis expensis excudebant Palmblad & C.)... 1824-1826. 2 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. suec.* **Notes** *1*: Oct-Dec 1824 (p. iv: cal. Oct 1824; offered for sale in Stockholm early Mai 1825 fide Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 4(3): 52. 1826, see MD p. 235-237; Flora 28 Mai 1825 out but not yet seen), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-428. *2*: 1826 (p. xxvi: Feb 1826; Flora 28 Jun 1826 corr. Stockholm: not yet out, nearly ready; Linnaea rev. 1: 642. Oct-Dec 1826), p. \[ii-iii, p. ii\*: t.p. for part 2; p. iii: general t.p. for complete volume "Flora suecica... indigenas post Linnaeum edita... Upsaliae (id.) 1826"\], these also separate and bound as \[i, iii\], p. \[i\]-lxxxviii, 429-1117, chart. *Copies*: B, B-S, BR, FH, G, H, HH, KNAW, LD, LIV, M, MICH, NY(2), PH, Stevenson, USDA. *Ed. 2*: 1831-1832, 2 parts. "Auctior et emendatior denuo impressa" Upsaliae (Impensis Palmblad & C.). *Copies*: HH, LD, NY, Peterson, US(2), USDA. *1*: 1831, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xcvii, \[1\]-445, tab. *2*: 1833 (p. xxiv: Aug 1833), p. \[i\*\], 447-1134. – The set of pages \[i\]-xcvii may be bound either in vol. 1 or vol. 2. *Novitiae florae suecicae* by E.M. Fries, *ed. altera*, 1828, TL-2/1871 is a commentary on Wahlenberg's flora.