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Henry Ernest Muhlenberg papers
This collection contains scientific letters written to Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753-1815). Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor and biologist, is considered the first botanist born in America who researched the flora and fauna of his homeland systematically. His work contributed considerably to the advanc...
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| Collection: | Henry Ernest Muhlenberg Papers |
| Collection Number: | 0443 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | German |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henrich Ernst |d 1753-1815. |e Compiler (com) | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Henry Ernest Muhlenberg papers |f 1781-1816 | |
| 300 | |a 0.4 Linear feet |f ; 1 box [15 folders] | ||
| 506 | |a The collection is open for research. | ||
| 520 | |a This collection contains scientific letters written to Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753-1815). Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor and biologist, is considered the first botanist born in America who researched the flora and fauna of his homeland systematically. His work contributed considerably to the advancement of natural science around 1800. Some new descriptions and assignations of North American plants based on the system of Carl von Linné (also known as Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778) go back to Muhlenberg. He discovered a type of grass of the subfamily of Chloridoideae common in Mexico and the south west of the United States, which after his discovery was named “the Muhlenbergia.” Various types of plants bear the type-epitheton “Muhlenbergii” to honor Henry Ernest Muhlenberg. He also discovered and identified the bog turtle, which got the epitheton “glyptemys muhlenbergii.” The German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) honored Muhlenberg by naming a genus of grasses “Muhlenbergia.” Also, an American botanical magazine published between 1900 and 1915 was entitled “Muhlenbergia.” His correspondence with various distinguished European and American naturalists was an important aspect of his botanical research. This collection contains only letters addressed to Muhlenberg. | ||
| 524 | 8 | |a Cite as: Henry Muhlenberg papers (collection 0443), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. | |
| 541 | 1 | |a Donated by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, 1878. | |
| 544 | |a At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Johann Friedrich Ernst papers (Am .0625) Frank M. Etting collection (Collection 0193) Daybook of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (LCP6) Benjamin Smith Barton papers (Collection 0034) Benjamin Smith Barton lecture notes (Collection 1623) Bartram family papers (Collection 0036) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/bartram0036.XML Ferdinand Julius Dreer collection (Collection 0175) Descriptio uberior graminum et plantarum calamariarum Americæ septentrionalis indigenarum et cicurum. By Henry Muhlenberg. (Api.99 4686) At other institutions: Catalogus plantarum Americae Septentrionalis, huc usque cognitarum indigenarum et cicurum : or, A catalogue of the hitherto known native and naturalized plants of North America, arranged according to the sexual system of Linnaeus. By Henry Muhlenberg. At the Library Company in Philadelphia, Pa. (LCP Api.99 433) Muhlenberg family papers, 1769-1866 at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pa. http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M891-ead.xml Papers of Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Mühlenberg at the archives of the Francke Foundations in Halle, Germany. Henry Ernest Muhlenberg letter at the Library of the Gray Herbarium in Cambridge, Mass. Henry Ernest Muhlenberg papers at the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Online publication project at the University of Bamberg: “Transatlantische Briefe” [Transatlantic letters], edited by Matthias Schönhofer. http://www.uni-bamberg.de/hist-ng/forschung/projekt-transatlantische-briefe/muehlenberg-datenbank-test/ | ||
| 555 | |a Finding Aid Available Online: | ||
| 546 | |a Material in this collection are mainly in German and English, with some items in French. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Acharius, Erik |d 1757-1819. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Baldwin, William |d 1779-1819. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Barton, Benjamin Smith |d 1766-1815. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Bartram, William |d 1739-1823. |e Author (aut) |2 local |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Brickell, John |d 1749-1809. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Elliott, Stephen |d 1771-1830. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Hedwig, Johannes |d 1730-1799. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Hoffman, Georg Franz |d 1761-1826. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Michaux, François André |d 1770-1855. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Persoon, C. H. (Christiaan Hendrik) |d 1755-1837. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Pursh, Frederick |d 1774-1820. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel |d 1783-1840. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Schoepf, Johann David |d 1752-1800. |e Author (aut) |2 Local Sources |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Schrader, Heinrich Adolph |d 1767-1836. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel |d 1739-1810. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Smith, James Edward |c Sir |d 1759-1828. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim |d 1766-1833. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Sturm, Jakob |d 1771-1848. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Swartz, Olof |d 1760-1818. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Willdenow, Karl Ludwig |d 1765-1812. |e Author (aut) |2 NACO Authority File |
| 650 | 7 | |a Botany--Eighteenth Century. |2 local | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Botany--Nomenclature. |2 local | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Naturalists--United States--Correspondence. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Numerical taxonomy. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Letters. |2 Thesaurus for Graphic Materials | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Henry Ernest Muhlenberg Papers |l 0443 | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |y Link to finding aid |u http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/m/Muhlenberg0443.html |