> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 391](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066731) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13022-1) LSID 13022-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1458035) QID Q1458035 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wislizenus, Friedrich \[later: Frederick\] Adolph (1810-1889), German-born (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt/Thuringian) American traveller, physician and author; studied natural sciences at Jena, Göttingen, Zürich and Paris; to the United States in 1835; settling as country physician at Mascoutah, Illinois; travelled in the Middle West 1839; settling as physician in partnership with Georg Engelmann in St. Louis 1839; travelled to Northern Mexico and the Gulf region 1846-1847; from 1850-1852 in Europe and California, again in St. Louis from 1852. **Abbreviated name**: *Wisl* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wisl.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]]. – Other material in [[Collection BG|BG]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection WB|WB]] (destr.). – *Letters* to J. Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 33; Barnhart 3: 509 (b. Mai 1810, d. 22 Sep 1889); BM 5: 2342; DAB 20: 430-431; Ewan ed. 1: 5, 8, 28, 299, 338-339, 2: 241-242; Herder p. 63; Hortus 3: 1207; Langman p. 808; Lenley p. 472; ME 1: 242, 3: 41-42, 680 \[index\]; Merrill p. 256-257, 398, 715; PR 10356; Render 1: 331; SO 2868; Tucker 1: 14, 750, 3: 339. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 259: 737. 1965; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 592. 1963. - Benson, L., Cact. Succ. J., U.S. 46: 74. 1974, 47: 40-43. 1975 (notes on date of publ. Memoir N. Mexico). - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. diet. Amer. Sci. 279. 1979. - Engelmann, G.J., Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci. 5: 464-468. 1892. - Ewan, J., Century nat. Sci. San Francisico 62. 1955. - Geiser, S.W., Natural. Frontier 283. 1948. - Knobloch, I.W., Plant coll. N. Mexico 73. 1979; Prel. verif. list pl. coll. Mexico 105. 1983. - Lamb, D.S., *in* H.A. Kelly, Cycl. Arner. med. biogr. 519. 1912; *in* H.A. Kelly & W.L. Burrage, Arner. med. biogr. 1248. 1920. - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. Expl. Trans. Miss. West 1790-1850, p. 1143 \[index\]. 1955 (many details on his travels). - Rogers, A.D., John Torrey 139-142, 219, 244. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 340 \[index\]. 1944. - Sargent, C.S., Silva 6: 94. 1894. - Schlueter, R.E., Frederick Adolphus Wislizenus, St. Louis, MO., p. 37-48. s.d. - Spaulding, P., Pop. Sci. Mon. 74: 129. 244-246. 1909. - Starr, F., Pop. Sci. Mon. 52: 629,631, 638, 643-644, 647. 1898. - Weiss, H.B., Pioneer cent. Amer. entom. 231-232. 1936. - Wislizenus, F.A., Gedichte. Seinen Freunden zum Andenken von seiner Familie. St. Louis, 1890, ix, 1, 51 p. (*copy*: MO); Ein Ausflug nach den Felsen-Gebirgen im Jahre 1839,... St. Louis 1840, 126 p.; A journey to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1839, translation from the German with a sketch of the author's life, by Frederick A. Wislizenus, Esq. St. Louis 1912 (biogr.), facsimile ed. Glorieta, New Mexico 1969, xv, 168 p., map. #### Composite works *Beitraege zur genauern Kenntniss des noerdlichen Mexico, in* H. Berghaus, ed., *Physikalischer Atlas*, Gotha 1850, p. 28-53, map, 3 profiles.– Excerpt: Bot. Zeit. 8: 660, 675, 687, 703, 721-725. 1850; see also Arch. Pharm. ser. 2. 71: 224-230. 1852. #### Eponymy *Wislizenia* Engelmann (1848). ### Publications ##### n.18.052. Memoir of a tour to Northern Mexico **Title** 30th Congress, 1st session. \[Senate\] Miscellaneous. No. 26. *Memoir of a tour to Northern Mexico*, connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847... Washington (Tippin & Streeper, printers) 1848. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mem. tour N. Mexico*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1848 (t.p.: January 13, 1848. – Ordered that 5000 copies be. printed..., see Benson (1974 and 1975), p. \[1\]-141, 2 maps, table. *Copies*: BM, HH, NY, PH. – Botany, by G. Engelmann, on p. 87-115. *German*: 1850, p. \[1\]-viii, \[1\]-211, 2 maps, table. *Copies*: MO, NY. – *Denkschrift über eine Reise nach Nord-Mexiko*, verbunden mit der Expedition des Oberstens Donniphan \[sic\], in den Jahren 1846 and 1847... aus dem Englischen übertragen von George M. von Ross... Braunschweig (Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn) 1850. Oct. *Reprint*: 1969, Rio Grande Press (n.v.).