(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1833, Zürich, Switzerland. Died: 1916, Laibach, Germany.

career:

Swiss collector of Godefroy at Hamburg, Germany, who stayed for 11 years in the Samoa Islands. In 1862 and subsequent years he collected in the Fiji, Tonga and Ellices Islands; in 1872 returned to Europe. He accompanied the voyage of the ‘Planet’ (cf. itiner. etc. sub A. Kraemer), 1906- 07. Some time Inspector of a zoological station at Trieste.

The liverwort Anastrophyllum graeffei Jack & Steph. was named after him. He is commemorated in Carex graeffeana Boeck.

Author of ‘Samoa oder die Schifferinseln’ (Hamb. Mus. Godeffroy 1873).

collections:

Herb. Berl. [B]: marine Algae collected near New Guinea and in the Pacific.¹ Herb. Hamb. [HBG] (acq. with Herb. Mus. Godefroy in 1886) collection from the Pacific (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, etc., made in 1862).²

He may have collected N.G. phanerogams too.

literature:

(1) cf. O.C. Schmidt in Hedwigia 68, 1928, p. 19-86.

(2) B. Seemann: ‘New South Sea island plants’ (Seemann Journ. Bot. 2, 1864, p. 70-77).

biographical data:

Deutsche Entom. Zeit-schr. (Berl.) 1916, p. 605; Vierteljahrschr. Naturf. Ges. Zurich 61, 1916, p. 1-39 + portr.; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

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