Ignaz Dörfler

Ignaz Emanuel Dörfler (19 June 1866 – 1950) was an Austrian botanist and collector of plants, autographs, and postmarks. He lived in Vienna and is known to have described various plants.[1]

Life and work

Dörfler was born on 19 June 1866 in Vienna, Austrian Empire. He published "centuries" 31–38 of the exsiccata series "Herbarium Normale" begun by F. W. Schultz.[2] He curated herbarium specimens as a profession and dealed with exsiccata-like specimen series collected by botanist explorers like Alfon S. Callier, Ferdynand Karo and Gregorio Rigo, e.g. the series F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler.[3] From 1920 to 1937 he curated the collections of the Botanical Institute of the University of Vienna. He collected autographed letters of botanists. He sold them to Uppsala after the First World War.[4]

His father was a civil servant in forestry.[5] Ignaz worked for Anton Kerner von Marilaun. He chaired the Vienna Botanical Exchange Society. He married and had two daughters.[5] He collected in parts of the Ottaman Empire including the Balkans as well as in Europe. He made a trade of plants and his aurograph and postmark collections.[5]

He explored Albanian and Macedonian areas with Árpád von Degen.[6] He explored the Voras Mountains area in 1893.[7] He married Maria Josefa Reichel from Meziměstí, Bohemia, and their daughters were Maria Barbara Ignazia (born 1897) and Elisabeth (born 1898).[5]

Taxons

According to Wikispecies he named 12 taxon.[8]

  • Achillea doerfleri
  • Alyssum doerfleri
  • Arabis doerfleri
  • Colchicum doerfleri
  • Draba doerfleri
  • Gentiana doerfleri
  • Lecanactis doerfleri
  • Linum doerfleri
  • Nigella doerfleri
  • Ononis doerfleri
  • Paramoltkia doerfleri
  • Petasites doerfleri
  • Saxifraga doerfleri
  • Sesleria doerfleri
  • Thymus doerfleri
  • Viola doerfleri

Published work

  • Botaniker Porträts[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Botanisches Zentralblatt". June 27, 1902 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Herbarium normale. Conditum a F. Schultz, dein continuatum a K. Keck, nunc editum per I. Dörfler.: IndExs ExsiccataID=1124018816". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler: IndExs ExsiccataID=405417728". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  4. ↑ https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000390155
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Dörfler, Ignaz". Collectors of Ukrainian Herbaria.
  6. ↑ Library, Arnold Arboretum (27 June 1917). "Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University". Printed at the Cosmos Press – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Tsekos, Ioannes; Moustakas, Michael (6 December 2012). "Progress in Botanical Research: Proceedings of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress". Springer Science & Business Media – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Category:Ignaz Dörfler taxa - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org.
  9. ↑ https://archive.org/details/botanikerportrat11906dorf

Further reading

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