About Ignaz von Olfers
Lived 1793 – 1871 (aged 77). Ignaz von Olfers was a German diplomat, historian, zoologist, scientific collector, physician and naturalist.
Ignaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers (30 August 1793 – 23 April 1871) was a German naturalist, historian and diplomat.
Olfers described a number of new mammal species in Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege's Journal von Brasilien (1818).
In 1819, Olfersia which is a genus of ferns (in the family Dryopteridaceae) from South America, was published, then a species of South American snake, Philodryas olfersii (in 1823), and frog, Physalaemus olfersii (in 1856), were all named in his honour.
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Who was Ignaz von Olfers?
German zoologist, diplomat and historian (1793-1871)
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Ignaz von Olfers was born on 30 August 1793 in Münster.
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Ignaz von Olfers died on 23 April 1871 in Berlin.
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Ignaz von Olfers was a diplomat, historian, zoologist, scientific collector, physician and naturalist.
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Ignaz von Olfers was German.
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