> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 218](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066558) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11596-1) LSID 11596-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6238531) QID Q6238531 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Westring, Johan Peter (1753-1833), Swedish physician and lichenologist; student of C. Linnaeus; Dr. med. Uppsala 1780; practicing physician in Linköping and, from 1781, Norrköping; royal physician from 1794. **Abbreviated name**: *Westr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Westr.*\] #### Herbarium and types Some material in [[Collection UPS|UPS]]; owned a lichen collection (Löwegren p. 370). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 481; BM 5: 2302; Dryander 3: 587, 5: 99; GR p. 484, cat. p. 73; Hawksworth p. 186; Hegi 5(4): 2522; KR p. 757-758 (b. 24 Nov 1753, d. 1 Oct 1833); LS 28731-28734; PR 10207, ed. 1: 6219, 11187; Rehder 5: 916; SBC p. 134; SO 1313, 2441; TL-2/4849. #### Biofile - Anon., K. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1833: 391-398. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 96. 1934 (letter on his work on lichens). - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 303, 330. 1969. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 233. 1911. - Gertz, O., K. Fysiogr. Sällsk. Lund 1772-1940; Hist. övers. 107-108. 1940. - Lindman, S., Sv. män kvinn. 8: 309-310. 1955. - Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekabinett Sverige 370. 1952. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1307. 1863. - Pontin, M.M. af, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1833: 391-398. #### Composite works - (1) Author of the Linnaean dissertation *de Ledo palustri* (1775), see TL-2/4849. - (2) *Lichen Acharii* Westr. *in* E. Acharius, *Lich. Sv. prodr.* 33, *col. pl.* (on t.p.) 1798, TL-2/9. #### Eponymy *Westringia* J.E. Smith (1797). ### Publications ##### n.17.287. Svenska lafvarnas färghistoria **Title** *Svenska lafvarnas färghistoria*, eller sättet att använda dem till färgning och annan hushållsnytta... Stockholm (Tryckt hos Carl Delén) 1805 \[-1809\]. Duod. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Sv. lafv. färghist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1805-1809, one volume issued in 8 parts (3 vols., 24 parts planned). *Copies*: Almborn, GB, H, LD, NY, Peterson, USDA. – Plates by E. Acharius. *Titles vol. 1*: 1805, p. \[i, iii\]. *Häftet 1*: 1805, cover-t.p., p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-32, *4 pl*., back cover (dated imprint). *2*: 1806, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-48, *3 pl*., back cover (id.). *3*: 1806, cover-t.p., p. \[49\]-108, *3 pl*., back cover (id.). *4*: 1806, cover-t.p., p. 109-160, *3 pl*., back cover (id.). *5*: 1807, cover-t.p., p. 161-204, *3 pl*., back cover (id.). *6*: 1808, cover-t.p., p. 205-260, *3 pl*., back cover (id.). *7*: 1808, cover-t.p., p. 261-292, *3 pl*., Svar på Recensionen (reply to review), \[1\]-23, back cover (id.). *8*: 1809, cover-t.p., p. 295-338, *3 pl*., *Tillägg med Svar på Anmärkningar*... (Additions with reply to remarks \[1\]-11 appendix, \[i\]-viii, index, \[1, err.\], back cover (id.). For the polemic papers in parts 7 and 8, see KR p. 758. – Actually a second edition of a series of papers, listed below. *Original publ*.: *Försök*, at af de flesta Laf-arter (Lichenes) bereda Färgstofter... Afd. 1-8. – Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1791: 113-138, 293-307; 1793: 35-54; 1794: 3-31 and Bihang 31-32; 1795: 41-58; 1797: 176-192; 1798: 1-22; 1801: 207-228; 1804: 14-39, 109-124. Also in *German* (1-2): Abh. Schwed. Akad. Wiss. 12: 101-14, 275-287. 1792; and *French *(1-2): Ann. Chimie, Paris 15: 267-297. 1792, 17: 67-84. 1793. For another German translation (n.v.), in Lorenz Crell, Chem. Anal., Helmstädt. 1792-1804, see LS 28731. *German transl*. of definitive publ. of part 1: 1805, p. \[i\]-xxii, \[1\]-23, *pl. 1-3* (col. copp.). *Copy*: NY. – "*Schwedens vorzüglichste Färbeflechten* treu nach der Natur abgebildet nebst der chemischen Bearbeitung derselben besonders in Rücksicht auf Färberey begleitet mit Farbentafeln... Aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt von F.D.D. Ulrich. Norrköping und Leipzig (bey F.D.D. Ulrich) 1805. Oct. (*Schwed. Färbeflecht.*).