> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 56](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066396) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11394-1) LSID 11394-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1457992) QID Q1457992 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wangenheim, Friedrich Adam Julius von (1749-1800), German (Sachsen-Gotha) soldier and forester; joined the army corps of the Duke of Hessen-Kassel in 1776; with this corps in the United States 1777-1783 as first lieutenant, from 1779 as staff captain; with the Hessian forest service 1784-1787; forester in Prussian Lithuania 1787, from 1788 as Prussian "Oberforstmeister" (forester-in-charge) of the Lithuanian directorate general at Gumbinnen of the Lithuanian "Kriegs-und Domänenkammer" (Prussian military territorial administration); also in charge of the re-afforestation of the Polish provinces of Bialystock and Plock 1799-1800. **Abbreviated name**: *Wangenh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wangenh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 41: 148-149 (R. Hess); Backer p. 663; Barnhart 3: 457 (b. 8 Feb 1749, d. 25 Mar 1800); BM 5: 2262; Bossert p. 425; Dryander 3: 209, 270, 277, 320, 325, 5: 480 (index); Frank 3 (Anh.): 111; GF p. 80; Herder p. 382; Hortus 3: 1206; ME 3: 352, 355; Moebius p. 395; NI 2105; PR 9990-9991, ed. 1: 10977-10978; Ratzeburg p. 157-158; Rehder 5: 901; Tucker 1: 730; Zander ed. 11, p. 832. #### Biofile - Anon., Applet. Cyc. Amer. biogr. 6: 346. 1889. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldw. 163. 1843; Memorials 467. 1849. - Hess, R., Lebensbild. hervorrag. Forstmänn. 394-396. 1885 (biogr., sources). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 774. 1985. - Meusel, J.G., Lex. teut. Schriftst. 14: 408-409. 1815 (bibl.). #### Eponymy *Wangenheimia* Moench (1794); *Wangenheimia* F.G. Dietrich (1810). ### Publications ##### n.16.632. Beschreibung einiger Nordamericanischen Holz- und Buscharten **Title** *Beschreibung einiger Nordamericanischen Holz- und Buscharten*, mit Anwendung auf teutsche Forsten; zum Gebrauch für Holzgerechte Jäger und Anpflanzer fremder Holzarten von Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim... aus den in dortigen Provinzen seit den Jahren 1777. bis 1780. gemachten Bemerkungen. Göttingen (bey Johann Christian Dieterich) 1781. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Beschr. Nordamer. Holz- Buschart.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1781 (p. \[6\]: Mai 1780; NZgS 27 Dec 1781), p. \[i\], \[1\]-151, \[152-160 indexes\]. *Copies*: HH, NY, PH, USDA. – Preface signed "Harlem auf der Insel New York..." ##### n.16.633. Beytrag zur teutschen holzgerechten Forstwissenschaft **Title** *Beytrag zur teutschen holzgerechten Forstwissenschaft*, die Anpflanzung Nordamericanischer Holzarten, mit Anwendung auf teutsche Forste, betreffend... Göttingen (bey Johann Christian Dieterich) 1787. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Beytr. teut. Forstwiss.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1787 (Wangenheim, Schr. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 8(3): 129-130. 1788 stated that the book was available at the Leipzig Easter Fair 1787; ALZ rev. 20 Oct 1787 \[inf. J.W. Landon\], p. \[i\]-xlv, \[xlvi\], \[1\]-124, index \[1-8\], *pl. 1-31* (uncol. copp. author). *Copies*: BR, G, HH, M, MICH, MO, NY. *Additions*: *Beschreibung der Poleyblättigen Kalmia* und der gelben Rosskastanie... Schr. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 8(3): 129-133. 1788.