Viktor Ferdinand Schiffner

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Viktor Ferdinand Schiffner , also Victor Félix Schiffner, (born August 10, 1862 near Böhmisch-Leipa , † December 1, 1944 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian bryologist and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Schiffn. "

Life

Schiffner studied from 1880 zoology and botany at the German University in Prague, where he received his doctorate in 1887 and habilitation in systematic botany in 1888. In Prague he was Moritz Willkomm's assistant at the Botanical Garden. In 1891 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1893/94 he was on a research trip to Java and Sumatra ( Herbarium von Buitenzorg ), where he especially collected liverworts . In 1896 he became an associate professor in Prague. In 1901 he took part in an expedition of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to southern Brazil (led by Richard Wettstein ). In 1902 he became associate professor and in 1904 full professor for systematic botany at the University of Vienna . In 1932 he retired.

He was mainly concerned with the systematics of liverworts. He described his collections from Indonesia in Hepaticum Archipelagi Indici (1898 to 1900), his work on the liverworts of Brazil was completed and published in 1964 by Sigrid Arnell. He also dealt with mycology and systematics of sea algae (Adriatic) and flowering plants. In 1918 he and Heinrich Lohwag founded the Society of Pilzfreunde (later the Mycological Society ). From the 1920s he published writings on natural philosophy.

He wrote the volume Lebermoose (Hepaticae) in Adolf Engler , Karl Anton Prantl The natural plant families .

His herbarium of 50,000 mosses, especially liverworts, was bought by Harvard University in 1931 .

Honors

The moss genera Schiffneria Stephani , Schiffnerina Kuntze , Schiffneriolejeunea Verd are named after him . and the mushroom genera Schiffnerula Höhn. and Phaeoschiffnerula Theiss.

Fonts

  • Botany, Vienna, 2nd edition 1919
  • Poisonous and edible mushrooms, Vienna 1918
  • Poisonous and edible berries, Vienna 1918
  • The food sponges and their doppelgangers, Krakow 1943
  • The reasons for existence of cell formation and cell division, heredity and sexuality, Jena: G. Fischer 1926
  • The problems of space and time and the idea of ​​real infinity, Leipzig: Voigtländer 1934
  • The essence of space and its laws, Leipzig: Voigtländer, 1932
  • Relativity principle and gravitation problem, Voigtländer, 1931
  • Neo-Darwinism metaphysically based on the General Purpose Act, Jena: G. Fischer, 1926

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References and comments

  1. ^ According to NDB Viktor Ferdinand. At JSTOR Global Plants, the given name is Victor Félix
  2. ↑ Member entry by Victor Schiffner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schiffner, Viktor Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiffner, Victor Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Leipa
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1944
Place of death Baden near Vienna