Alexander Zahlbruckner (1860 - 1938)
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Biography
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Biography
1878 studies natural science at the university of Vienna
1883 earns PhD with a dissertation in plant physiology, works in the botany department of the natural history museum in Vienna
1899 promoted to director of the department
1918 promoted to director of the entire museum
Zahlbruckner was mainly a lichen guy, doing studies on the lichens of Africa, China, Iceland, Taiwan, Hawaii, Japan, Java, South America, Dalmatia, and Samoa. I imagine that the studies of Africa, China, and South America were not quite as complete as those of the smaller areas. It's also not quite clear how he got his specimens; I don't think he traveled to those locations himself. His Catalogus lichenum universalis is the starting point of all further lichen systematics.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Alexander Zahlbruckner (1921 - 1940) Catalogus lichenum universalis (Universal Catalogue of Lichens) 10 vol.Mind you, this is a systematic arrangement of all the species of lichens, with complete citations and illustrations, but without keys or descriptions
Alexander Zahlbruckner (1926) Lichenes. B. Spezieller Teil (Lichenes. B. The Species) pp. 61 - 270Part A of this article, taking up pages 1 - 60 of the volume, is by Fünfstück; I believe it is an overview of the taxon.
Alexander Zahlbruckner (1928) "Die Gattung Lecanora" (The genus Lecanora) in Botany 44 pp. 1 - 32This article was part of the Report of the Scientific Results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemlya 1921
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