SchaferH

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Schäfer, Hans

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

Born: 1884, Görlitz, Silesia, Germany.

career:

Was educated at several German universities (M.D. Breslau 1909); from 1909-14 in the Cameroons (Africa); in 1921 to the D.E.I., till 1924 Government Physician at Sibolga and Padang (West Sumatra); in 1926 regional and missionary doctor at Sambas (W. Borneo); later plantation doctor in Deli (Sumatra East Coast) and subsequently of the gold-mine Lebong Tandai in Benkoelen (S. Sumatra). At the invasion of Holland by the Germans he was interned and later shipped to British India, where he was in a camp at Dehra Dun; after World War II attached to a health-resort at Dannenfels, Pfaltz (S. Germany).

He is commemorated in Calamus schaeferianus Burret.

Collecting localities:

Sumatra and W. Java (G. Papandajan).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: material of Amorphophallus and Rafflesia species from S. Sumatra (pres. 1934-38); Herb. Kol. (= Ind.) Inst. Amsterdam: flower of Rafflesia arnoldi + herbarium material of Cissus sp. (pres. 1935); also material in Herb. Berlin [B]. Material of Rafflesia in formalin etc. was sent to Hamburg [HBG] and Königsberg too. Tubers of Amorphophallus were presented to Buitenzorg, Kew, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Berlin.

	Career Collecting localities Collections
	Schäfer, Hans
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1884, Görlitz, Silesia, Germany.
	career: Was educated at several German universities (M.D. Breslau 1909); from 1909-14 in the Cameroons (Africa); in 1921 to the D.E.I., till 1924 Government Physician at Sibolga and Padang (West Sumatra); in 1926 regional and missionary doctor at Sambas (W. Borneo); later plantation doctor in Deli (Sumatra East Coast) and subsequently of the gold-mine Lebong Tandai in Benkoelen (S. Sumatra). At the invasion of Holland by the Germans he was interned and later shipped to British India, where he was in a camp at Dehra Dun; after World War II attached to a health-resort at Dannenfels, Pfaltz (S. Germany). He is commemorated in Calamus schaeferianus Burret.
	Collecting localities: Sumatra and W. Java (G. Papandajan).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: material of Amorphophallus and Rafflesia species from S. Sumatra (pres. 1934-38); Herb. Kol. (= Ind.) Inst. Amsterdam: flower of Rafflesia arnoldi + herbarium material of Cissus sp. (pres. 1935); also material in Herb. Berlin [B]. Material of Rafflesia in formalin etc. was sent to Hamburg [HBG] and Königsberg too. Tubers of Amorphophallus were presented to Buitenzorg, Kew, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Berlin.