> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 30](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066370) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12989-1) LSID 12989-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78816) QID Q78816 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Waldstein, Franz de Paula Adam \[Graf\] (1759-1823), Austrian soldier and botanist; in campaigns against the Turks and North African states as Maltese knight 1777-1781; in the Austrian-Turkish war and the Prussian campaign 1787-1789; dedicating himself to botany from 1789 together with Paul Kitaibel, mainly travelling in historical Hungary; in the Austro-French war in Italy 1797; continued his botanical studies from Vedröd near Pressburg (Bratislava), again in active service in the Austrian army 1809; from 1814 in possession of the family estate in Bohemia (nr Oberleutensdorf). **Abbreviated name**: *Waldst.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Waldst.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PR|PR]]. – Many of the Waldstein and Kitaibel types are at [[Collection PR|PR]], others in [[Collection BP|BP]] and [[Collection BM|BM]] (through Shuttleworth). The Prague types are listed by Chrtek and Skocdopolová (1982). – A specimen from "Tauria" (Crimea), collected by Waldstein is at [[Collection H|H]]; other material at [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. – *Letter* to Jacquin at [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 148, 5(2): 137, 437, 12(3): 58; Backer p. 620; Barnhart 3: 451 (b. 24 Feb 1759, d. 24 Mai 1823); BM 2: 987, 5: 2254; DU 325; Frank 3 (Anh.): 80; Futak-Domin p. 649; Hegi 4(2): 927, 5(1): 600; Herder p. 193; Hortus 3: 1206; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 345; Jackson p. 267; Kanitz p. 60 (no. 94); Klásterský p. 200; Lasègue p. 333, 527; Maiwald p. 87, 89, 91, 120, 140; NI 2096; Plesch p. 454; PR 9939, ed. 1: 10919; Rehder 1: 444; SK 4: ccxvi (Stearn); Sotheby 801; TL-1/1379; TL-2/see P. Kitaibel; Tucker 1: 728; WU 52: 209, 234-236; Zander ed. 10, p. 729, ed. 11, p. 822. #### Biofile - Anon., Flora 6(1): 383-384. 1823 (obit.). - Borbás, V., A Balaton tavának és partmellékének növény f. edény. növennyz. 309-310. 1900. - Chrtek, J. & B. Skocdopolová, Acta musei natl. Prag. 38B(4): 201-234. 1982 (on W.'s herbarium in PR, list types; analysis of herbarium shows that Waldstein took an active part in writing the *Descriptiones*). - Degen, A. v., Fl. velebitica 1: 517. 1936. - Gombocz, E., Acta hist. rer. nat. techn. special issue 6. Prague 1973, p. 153-157. - Junk, W., Rara 2: 134. 1926. #### Eponymy *Waldsteinia* Willdenow (1799). ### Publications ##### n.16.560. Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae **Title** Francisci comitis Waldstein,... et Pauli Kitaibel... *Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae*. Viennae (Typis Matthiae Andreae Schmidt,...) \[1799\] 1802-1812, 3 vols. Fol. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. icon. pl. Hung.* **Notes** *1*: 1799-1802 (ten parts, see below), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-xxxii, 1-104, *pl. 1-100* (col. copp. J. Schütz). *2*: 1803-1805 (ten parts), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxii, 105-220, *pl. 101-200* (id.). *3*: 1806-1812 (eight parts; remained unfinished; no preface, but mss. introduction by Kitaibel published by A. Kanitz, Linnaea 33: 482-529. 1865), p. \[i\], \[221\]-310, \[311-312\], *pl. 201-280.* *Copies*: G, HH, Teyler, U; IDC 676. – Four volumes were anticipated. A note on p. 310 states that publication is suspended because of "multiplicia impedimenta, quae e gravibus temporibus in quibus vivimus inseparatibilia sunt".