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.

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. 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. 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.

His father was a civil servant in forestry. 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. He explored the Voras Mountains area in 1893. He married Maria Josefa Reichel from Meziměstí, Bohemia, and their daughters were Maria Barbara Ignazia (born 1897) and Elisabeth (born 1898). 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