including in 1888, Schweinitziella, a genus of fungi in the family Trichosphaeriaceae. A new genus in the family Ericaceae was named Schweinitzia in 1817, (but now classed a synonym of Monotropsis) and also a species of polypore, Phaeolus schweinitzii was named in his honour. He was a member of various learned societies in the United States, Germany, and France. While a resident of Salem he was elected president of the University of North Carolina, which honor he declined because it involved relinquishing work in the Moravian church. In 1821 he returned to his native village in Pennsylvania and continued his studies until his death. He described Dibotryon morbosum (Schwein.) Theiss. & Syd., 1915, as well as Cantharellus (now Gomphus) floccosus in 1832. His herbarium, which comprised at the time of his death the largest private collection of plants in the United States, he bequeathed to the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. His birthplace, the Gemeinhaus-Lewis David de Schweinitz Residence, is a National Historic Landmark in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Selected publications Albertini, J. B. de, Schweinitz, L.D. de. (1805). Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatiæ superioris agro Nieskiensi crescentium e methodo Persooniana. Cum tabulis XII, æneis pictis, species nova XCIII sistendibus. Leipsic. Schweinitz, L. D. de. (1822). Synopsis Fungorum Carolinae Superioris. edita a D.(sic) F. Schwaegrichen. Soc. nat. cur. Lips. 4:20-132. _ (1825). Description of a number of new American species of Sphaeriae. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 5:3-17. _ (1832). Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali Media Digentium. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. of Phil. N. S. 4:141-318. Schweinitz' three works on American fungi contain a total of 4,491 species; of these, 1,533 were described as new and 10 new genera were established. See also :Category:Taxa named by Lewis David de Schweinitz References External links Lewis David von Schweinitz Papers held by the New York Botanical Garden's Mertz Library 1780 births 1834 deaths 19th-century American botanists American botanists American mycologists American people of German descent American people of the Moravian Church American taxonomists Members of the American Philosophical Society People from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Plant collectors