Ignaz von Olfers
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| Born | 30 August 1793  Münster |
| Died | 23 April 1871 (aged 77) Berlin |
Ignaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers (30 August 1793 – 23 April 1871) was a German naturalist, historian and diplomat.[1][2] Olfers was born in Münster. In 1816 he travelled to Brazil as a diplomat.[1]
In 1839 he was made director of the
Olfers described a number of new mammal species in Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege's Journal von Brasilien (1818).[4][5]
In 1819, Olfersia which is a genus of ferns (in the family Dryopteridaceae) from South America, was published,[6] then a species of South American snake, Philodryas olfersii (in 1823),[7] and frog, Physalaemus olfersii (in 1856), were all named in his honour.[2]
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References
- ^ a b c Lionel von Donop (1887), "Olfers, Ignaz von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 24, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 290–291
- ^ ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende (2006). Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten. Berlin: Haude & Spener. p. 55.
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Burwick, Roswitha (1994). "From Aesthetic Teas to the World of Noble Reformers: The Berlin Salonière (1780 to 1848)". Pacific Coast Philology. 29 (2): 129–142. JSTOR 1316470.
- JSTOR 4129998.
- ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020). "Olfersia". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.20. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Olfers", p. 194).
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