Ignaz von Olfers
Ignaz von Olfers | |
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| Born | 30 August 1793  |
| Died | 23 April 1871 |
| Occupations | Scientific collector, medical doctor, art historian, botanical collector |
Ignaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers (30 August 1793 – 23 April 1871) was a German naturalist, historian and diplomat.[1][2]: 158
Biography
He was born in Münster, into a banking Olfers family, that in 1803 also became an aristocratic one. In 1816 he travelled to Brazil as a diplomat.[1]
In 1839 he was made director of the royal art collections[1] and had significant influence on Frederick William IV of Prussia for a re-development of the Museumsinsel, Berlin. Together with architect Friedrich August Stueler, he developed the concept of the Neues Museum, Berlin and had great influence on organisation and presentation of exhibits and interior. His daughter was the writer and illustrator Marie von Olfers.[3]
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]: 194 and frog, Physalaemus olfersii (in 1856), were all named in his honour.[2]: 158
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Donop, Lionel von (1887). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 24. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 290–291.
- 1 2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8. xiii + 244 pp.
- ↑ Mende, Hans-Jürgen (2006). Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten. Berlin: Haude & Spener. p. 55. (in German).
- ↑ 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. doi:10.2307/1316470. JSTOR 1316470.
- ↑ van Wezel, Elsa (2001). "Die Konzeptionen des Alten und Neuen Museums zu Berlin und das sich wandelnde historische Bewusstsein". Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen (in German). 43: 3–244. doi:10.2307/4129998. JSTOR 4129998.
- ↑ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020). "Olfersia". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.20. Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5