Franz Xaver von Wulfen
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Baron Franz Xaver von Wulfen (born 5 November 1728 in Belgrade; died 16 March 1805 in Klagenfurt) was a botanist, mineralogist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering Wulfenia carinthiaca and Wulfenite.
His father, Christian Friedrich von Wulfen, was a high-ranking lietenant in the Austrian Army. Franz's education took place at Kaschau Gymnasium in present-day Košice, Slovakia. When he was 17, he joined a Jesuit school in Vienna and following his graduation he became a school instructor. By 1763 he was officially a priest.
To find specimens, Wulfen frequently hiked up the Großglockner. In 1781, he published his studies in the well-illustrated Plantae rariorum Carinthicae (Rare Plants of Carinthia).
[edit] Works
- Plantae rariores carinthiacae. V: Miscellanea austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam et historiam naturalem spectantia, vol. I (1778) str. 147-163 in vol. II (1781) str. 25-183
- Abhandlung vom Kärntner Bleispate, 1785
- Plantae rariores carinthiacae. V: Collectanea as botanicam, chemiam et historiam naturalem, vol. I (1786) str. 186-364, vol. II (1788) str. 112-234, vol. III (1789) str. 3-166, vol. IV (1790) str. 227-348
- Descriptiones Quorumdam Capensium Insectorum, 1786
- Plantae rariores descriptae, 1803
- Cryptogama aquatica, 1803
- Flora Norica phanerogama, 1858
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