Fictitious Entries
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Harmand, Louis Gustave c,e Henrion, Nicolas c,e Herauld, André c,e Herbette, André Paul c,e Hermstaedt, Nicholas Piet c,e Hernandez, Vicente c,e Herrera, Miguel da Fonseca e Silva c,e Higuaihué g Hjorn, Oscar c,e Horne, Antoine c,e Houdetot, François Lauriot de c,e Huden, Lucas Van c,e Huet de Navarre c,e Hühne, Bernhard c,e Huon de Penanster, Charles Henry c,e Huss, Magnus c,e
Verden, Karl von c,e Verdugo, Vicente c,e Vergara y Zamoral, Diego e Verhuen, Jacobus c,e Veuillot, Désiré c,e Viana, Francisco g Viana, Miguel Pereira c,e Vicente y Bennazar, Andres c,e Vigier, George c,e Villadarias, Manoel Duarte Caldeiras Centenera de c,e Villiers, Jean Pierre c,e Vilmot, Charles Stanislas c,e Vivier, Jacques du a,c,e Vogué, Jean Pierre de c,e Voisin, Charles Antoine c,e Voisin, Pierre Joseph c,e Voiture, Nicolas Auguste c,e,f
Davila, Nepomueno g Dombey, Joseph g Ferrer, Rafael e Ibercourt, Henry Louis g Icart, Pierre Nicolas g Ietersdorf-Klasten, Gustav von g Iff, Simon van d Ihering, Mauritius van g Ignacio, José de Jesu Maria e Igné-Chivré, Barthelemy e Igolino, Giuseppe a,c,d,e Illiers, Henry Louis, Comte d' d Illigen, Andre g Imecourt, Antoine g Imfreville-Baudry, Louis, Comte d' g Imhoffer, Gustave M. d,e Ingenhous, Jean Simon e Ingrande, Jose Domingo g Ingulf von Köln, Rudolf f Isambert, Henry g Iselin, Jacob Christian d Isles, Andre g Isoart, Louis e Issertieux, Dieudonné Gabriel Yves, Comte d' d Isthuanfi, Nicolas g Iwert, Sebold g Jacintha do San José g Jacobsen, Simon g Jacobson, Christian g Jansen, Olaüs e 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 Juels, Niels Apparently not the admiral .g Jügler, Lorenz e Jungmann, Bernhardt e Kannegieser, Sigismund g Keisar, Mauritius van e Kehr, Gustav Herman a,c,e Kerckhove, Lorenz Wenceslas a,c,e,f Kjoeping, Oläus a,c,e Klein, Gustav Frederic e Klüber, Melchior c,e Knapp, Mathias g Koehler, Alexander Daniel a,c,e La Borde e van Loot, Gerard e Lottenschiold, Mathias e Lotter, Frederic August a,c,e
Martin de Moyville, Edouard Nicolas Henry e Menacho, Juan Perez e Meyer, Bernhard e Michel, Dieudonné Gabriel Lucien g Michel, Jacques Léonard g Mimeure, Victor Emmanuel e Mondésir, Charles Stanislas e Montaigne de Nogaret, Charles Stanislas e Monteil, Nicolas Antoine c,e Montrueil, Desire Amahle Ferdinand e Moraud, Dieudonné e Mortier, Édouard Louis a,c,e Mouraille, Theodore e Nascher, Friedrich Wilhelm a,c,e Navailles, Charles g Neé, Isidore Charles Sigismond a,c,e Niebuhr, Sigismund g Niel, Frédéric Guillaume Amédée Ferdinand g Nina, João Estevam Miguel da Silva g Nores, Simon de g Orlando, Giuseppe e Ormond, Cesar e Otto, Charles g Oudin, Christian Jules e Percheron, Etienne e Pereira, Antonio e Perret, Jacques e Quesnel, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis g Quentin, Charles H. e Ramée, Stanislas Henri de la a,c,e Ramet, Nicolas g Renaud, Pierre F. e Sa, Simao Pereira de e Sibiel, Alexander e Simond, Alfred g Solis y Rivadeneyra, Antonio e Soulabie, Louis F. e Soupe, Marie Joseph g Struensee, Karl g Sylvie, Édouard a,c,e Tapin, Richard c,e Teste, Lucien Auguste g Thibaudin, Gaston Louis a,c,e Toussaint, Dieudonné Gabriel g Uffenbach, Bernard von e Ulphilas, Herman g Urfe, Louis Edouard d' e Wagner, Daniel Christian g Wallerton, Charles Louis Auguste a,c,e Wallon, Louis F. e Watteau, Boudoin Louis c,e Westerman, Hans g Wernicke, Gottlieb g Witsen, Willem Jacobus g Wouwerman, Simon van g Xuárez, Pedro g 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.)
e .
Cantillon, Joseph F., S.J. Woodstock Letters: Volume 67 (1938)
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).
g .
These were identified as fictitious not by sources, but due to significant issues within these biographies: these issues are listed at Fictitious biographies .
