> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 267](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066607) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11651-1) LSID 11651-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6076533) QID Q6076533 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wierzbicki, Peter \[baptised Petrus Paulus Wirzbicki\], Galician surgeon, botanist and entomologist; studied pharmacy and surgery in Hungary; surgeon's and pharmacist's diploma Pest 1828; assistant professor for botany and chemistry at Keszthely ca. 1820; regional physician in Orawiza in the mining industry in the Austrian Crownland Banat from ca. 1830; active plant collector and floristic botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Wierzb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wierzb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GJO|GJO]] (rd. through G. von Berg 1853). – Other material at [[Collection B|B]] (extant), [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LI|LI]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PRC|PRC]]. – *Manuscripts*: *Flora comitatus Monsoniensis*, 2 vols., Qu. 1820, an *Enumeratio* and an *Elenchus plantarum* in [[Collection BP|BP]]. *Exisccatae*: see J.A. Heuffel, *Plantarum rariorum Hungariae et Transsylvaniae* fasc. 1-10. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 764; Backer p. 625; Barnhart 3: 492 (d. 5 Feb 1847); Biol.-Dokum. 19: 10027; Clokie p. 264; CSP 6: 326; Hortus 3: 1207; Kanitz no. 128 (list publ., mss.); PR (alph.); TL-2/see J.A. Heuffel; WU 56: 34-35 (detailed biogr.). #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 5: 359. 1847 (herb. of 30.000 specim.), 6: 72. 1848 (d.); Flora 30: 148. 1847 (obit. not.). - Halmai, J., Bot. közlem. 56(3): 133-138. 1969 (biogr., list of further biogr. refs; b. 30 Jun 1794 Stary Sacz (now Poland), d. 5 Feb 1847 Oraciva banya (now Roumania). - Kanitz, A., Bonplandia 10: 363. 1862. - Oleszakowa, J., Wiad. Bot. 16(2): 89-90. 1972 (biogr. sketch). #### Eponymy *Wierzbickia* H.G.L. Reichenbach (1841) probably honors this author but no derivation was given. #### Handwriting Taxon 1: 69, 70. 1952.