About Victor Wilhelm Lindauer
Lived 1888 – 1964 (aged 75–76). Victor Wilhelm Lindauer was a New Zealand phycologist, botanist, teacher, head teacher, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Victor Wilhelm Lindauer (1888–1964) was a New Zealand phycologist, collector and teacher.
The son of New Zealand painter Gottfried Lindauer, he was born in 1888 in Auckland, and grew up in Woodville, spending a considerable part of his boyhood in the native bush. He trained as a teacher and after two years service in WWI with the US Army, he returned to New Zealand.
In 1927 Lindauer married Elsie (née Lovell), and in 1931, after the births of four children, the family moved to Russell where he had been appointed headmaster of the primary school.
Between 1939 and 1953 Lindauer created and distributed about 60 sets of the exsiccata work Algae Nova-Zelandicae Exsiccatae in 14 fascicles of 25 sheets, meaning 350 numbered specimen units. The sets have since been used as reference material for many taxonomic studies of New Zealand algae.
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New Zealand phycologist and botanist (1888-1964)
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Victor Wilhelm Lindauer was born in 1888 in Auckland.
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Victor Wilhelm Lindauer died in 1964 in Russell.
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Victor Wilhelm Lindauer was a phycologist, botanist, teacher, head teacher, botanical collector and scientific collector.
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