Original description: Haidinger, W., 1828. On Herderite, a new Mineral Species — The Philosophical Magazine 4: 1—3 [
view in ‘Library’].
Type locality: Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
Type material: unknown.
Etymology: in honour of Siegmund August Wolfgang von Herder, Freiberg, Germany.