Author:Lewis David von Schweinitz

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Lewis David von Schweinitz
(1780–1834)

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German-American botanist and mycologist; published as Ludwig or Lewis D. de Schweinitz, Ludovici Davidis de Schweinitz

Works

Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatiæ superioris agro Nieskiensi crescentium e methodo Persooniana. Cum tabulis XII, æneis pictis, species nova XCIII sistendibus, with J. B. Albertini (1805)
(a comprehensive work on Upper Lusatian fungi)
"Synopsis Fungorum Carolinae Superioris." in Soc. nat. cur. Lips. 4:20-132.(1822).
"Attempt of a Monography of the Linneaen Genus Viola, comprising all the Species hitherto observed in North-America" in The American Journal of Science, and Arts, 5: 46-81. (1822)
Analytical table to facilitate the determination of the hitherto observed North American species of the genus Carex. (Read at the New York Lyceum of Nat. Hist., Dec. 8, 1883)
A Catalogue of Plants, collected in the Northwestern Territory, by Mr. Thomas Say, in the year 1823. (Phila. 1824)
"Description of a number of new American species of Sphaeriae." in Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 5:3-17. (1825)
"Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali Media Digentium." in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. of Phil. N. S. 4:141-318. (1832)
"Account of the Journey of Br. and Sr. Ludwig v. Schweinitz from Herrnhut to Bethlehem in Pennaylvania" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biograpy. 46:312-333 (1922)

Works about Schweinitz

Walter R. Johnson: A Memoir of the Late Lewis David von Schweinitz, P.D., with a sketch of his scientific labours. Read before the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, May 12th, 1835. (1835)
Lucien Marcus Underwood: "Schweinitz and American Hepaticea." in Botanical Gazette, 9:63 (1884)
"A Sketch of the Life and Scientific Work of Lewis David von Schweinitz". in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (compiled from Walter R. Johnson's memoir above and his son Edmund de Schweinitz) (1886)
"Schweinitz, Lewis David von." in The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. 8:380 (1898)
"Schweinitz, Lewis David von," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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