> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 421](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066761) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11816-1) LSID 11816-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64121) QID Q64121 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wolf, Nathaniel Matthaeus von (1724-1784), German (West-Prussian, Danzig) physician, astronomer and botanist; studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Halle and Erfurt; practicing physician at Warsaw, Posen and Konitz; ca. 1769-1772 in Dirschau and, from 1772, in Danzig. **Abbreviated name**: *Wolf* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wolf*\] #### Herbarium and types von Wolf presented his herbarium and library in 1780 to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Danzig. Present location unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 513; BM 5: 2349; Bossert p. 441; Dryander 3: 33, 42; Herder p. 143; Hortus 3: 1207; PR 10380, ed. 1: 11341; Rehder 1: 77, 258; TL-1/1441-1443; TL-2/456; Zander ed. 10, p. 734, ed. 11, p. 837. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 260: 136. 1965. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 278.47. 1980. - Fuchs, H.P., Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 72(2): 343-349. 1961. - Mansfeld, R., Repert. sp. nov. 48: 267. 1940. - Meusel, J.G., Lex. teut. Schriftst. 15: 302-303. 1816. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1356-1357. 1863. - Ross, R., Acta bot. neerl. 15: 147-161. 1966 (extensive historical and nomenclatural study). - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 19: 68. 1861. - Schumann, E., Gesch. naturf. Ges. Danzig 1743-1892. 84-85, *pl. 3.* 1893 (brief biogr., b. 26 Jan 1724, d. 15 Dec 1784). - Stafleu, F.A., *in* G.H.M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 307. 1963. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 147. 1903. #### Eponymy *Wolfia* Schreber (1791, *nom. rej.*) and *Wolfia* K.P.J. Sprengel (1824) both probably honor this author but no etymology was given. ### Publications ##### n.18.167. Genera plantarum **Title** *Genera plantarum* vocabulis characteristicis definita... \[Danzig\] 1776. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1776-1780 (t.p. date is 1776, but p. \[149\] of the Concordantia is dated 1780. The *Genera* itself can be regarded to have been published in 1776, the Concordantia in 1780), p. \[1\]-8, chart, \[1\]-177, \[178, err.\]. *Concordantia botanica*: \[1-149\]. *Copies*: G, MO, USDA; IDC 5821. *Note*: The monomial nomenclature in code form introduced in these books (i.e. incl. the *Gen. sp. pl.* below) runs parallel to the Linnaean nomenclature and is alternative to it, not replacing it. The ordinary Latin names of genera in this publication have normal standing in nomenclature. \[e.g. Vincetoxicum on p. 130\]. Fuchs' statement that the Latin names are merely synonyms of the technical monomials is not supported here. Wolf's parallel nomenclature was intended to obtain a code-designation based on characters (see the title of the book). See Ross 1966 for an extensive commentary. ##### n.18.168. Genera et species plantarum **Title** *Genera et species plantarum* vocabulis characteribus definita. In Marienwerder (Typis Joan. Jac. Kanteri...) 1781. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. sp. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1781, p. \[1\]-454, chart, \[455-462, err.\]. *Copy*: PH; IDC 5821. – See above, *Gen. pl.* (1776) for a note on the nomenclature used in this work.