Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Fictitious Entries

Fictitious Entries

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A-G, I-L

M-U, W-Z

• Harmand, Louis Gustave^c
• Henrion, Nicolas^c
• Herauld, André^c
• Herbette, André Paul^c
• Hermstaedt, Nicholas Piet^c
• Hernandez, Vicente^c
• Herrera, Miguel da Fonseca e Silva^c
• Hjorn, Oscar^c
• Horne, Antoine^c,e
• Houdetot, François Lauriot de^c
• Huden, Lucas Van^c
• Huet de Navarre^c
• Hühne, Bernhard^c
• Huon de Penanster, Charles Henry^c
• Huss, Magnus^c

• Verden, Karl von^c,e
• Verdugo, Vicente^c,e
• Vergara y Zamoral, Diego^e
• Verhuen, Jacobus^c,e
• Veuillot, Désiré^c
• Viana, Miguel Pereira^c
• Vicente y Bennazar, Andres^c
• Vigier, George^c
• Villadarias, Manoel Duarte Caldeiras Centenera de^c
• Villiers, Jean Pierre^c
• Vilmot, Charles Stanislas^c
• Vivier, Jacques du^a,c
• Vogué, Jean Pierre de^c
• Voisin, Charles Antoine^c,e
• Voisin, Pierre Joseph^c
• Voiture, Nicolas Auguste^c,f

• Ferrer, Rafael^e
• Iff, Simon van^d
• Ignacio, José de Jesu Maria^e
• Igné-Chivré, Barthelemy^e
• Igolino, Giuseppe^a,c,d
• Illiers, Henry Louis, Comte d'^d
• Imhoffer, Gustave M.^d,e
• Ingenhous, Jean Simon^e
• Ingulf von Köln, Rudolf^f
• Iselin, Jacob Christian^d
• Isoart, Louis^e
• Issertieux, Dieudonné Gabriel Yves, Comte d'^d
• Jansen, Olaüs^d
• Jarava, Manuel^e
• Jargue, Francisco^e
• Jaubert, Edouard E.^e
• Jauregui y Aguilar, Domingo^e
• Jose de Santa Teresa^e
• Joubert, Antoine H.^e
• Jouffroy, Gabriel^e
• Kehr, Gustav Herman^a,c
• Kerckhove, Lorenz Wenceslas^a,c,f
• Kjoeping, Oläus^a,c
• Klein, Gustav Frederic^e
• Klüber, Melchior^c
• Koehler, Alexander Daniel^a,c
• La Borde^e
• Lottenschiold, Mathias^e
• Lotter, Frederic August^a,c

• Menacho, Juan Perez^e
• Meyer, Bernhard^e
• Mimeure, Victor Emmanuel^e
• Monteil, Nicolas Antoine^c
• Moraud, Dieudonné^e
• Mortier, Édouard Louis^a,c
• Mouraille, Theodore^e
• Nascher, Friedrich Wilhelm^a,c
• Neé, Isidore Charles Sigismond^a,c
• Orlando, Giuseppe^e
• Ormond, Cesar^e
• Oudin, Christian Jules^e
• Percheron, Etienne^e
• Pereira, Antonio^e
• Perret, Jacques^e
• Quentin, Charles H.^e
• Ramée, Stanislas Henri de la^a,c
• Renaud, Pierre F.^e
• Sa, Simao Pereira de^e
• Sibiel, Alexander^e
• Solis y Rivadeneyra, Antonio^e
• Soulabie, Louis F.^e
• Sylvie, Édouard^a,c
• Tapin, Richard^c
• Thibaudin, Gaston Louis^a,c
• Uffenbach, Bernard von^e
• Urfe, Louis Edouard d'^e
• Wallerton, Charles Louis Auguste^a,c
• Wallon, Louis F.^e
• Watteau, Boudoin Louis^c
• Zapata, Juan Ortiz de^e
• Zénon de Rouvroy, Charles-Albert^f

Sources for names of fictitious entries.
a.	Barnhart, John Hendley. "Some Fictitious Botanists." Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 20 (September 1919): 171-81. (This lists 14, and is at Google Books.)
b.	O'Brien, Frank M. "The Wayward Encyclopedias", New Yorker, XII (May 2, 1936), pp. 71-74. (This is a summary of Barnhart's article.)
c.	Schindler, Margaret Castle. "Fictitious Biography." American Historical Review 42 (1937), pp. 680-90. (This lists 47, including the 14 from Barnhart's article.)
d.	Dobson, John Blythe. "The Spurious Articles in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography—Some New Discoveries and Considerations." Biography 16(4) 1993: 388-408. (This lists 4 in "I" - Iff, Illiers, Iselin and Issertieux - and Jansen, who had not been detected previously.)
e.	Zorn, George, S.J. Woodstock Letters Index: Volumes 1-80 (1872-1951), Woodstock, Maryland: Woodstock College Press, 1960. Visited 13 October 2011. Search on "phantom Jesuit" or "Appleton's". (This lists 43, including 4 from Schindler's article. It also lists Vergara y Zamoral, who was not detected by Schindler.)
f.	Williams, Kelsey Jackson, Appletons' Cyclopeadia And A Mysterious Literary Hoax. (This lists Ingulf von Köln, who had been listed as suspicious by Dobson, and Zénon de Rouvroy, who had not been detected previously).