SchierbrandWCvon

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Schierbrand, Wolf C. von

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1807, Bautzen, Germany. Died: 1888, Dresden, Germany.

career:

Colonel, with the Royal Engineers from 1853-?; honorary member of the Natural History Society Isis at Dresden.

A general who evidently collected birds round Bandjermasin in the 1850s and presented them to the Austrian Frigate ‘Novara’ during the latter’s scientific voyage round the world, 1857-59 (cf. Fl. Mal. vol. 1 sub Jelinek).²

Is cited as the collector of a plant in Java (cf. Mez in Pflanzenreich 9, 1901, p. 32). He might be identical with the author of a travel account on this island.¹ It seems probable that he is the collector of the Java plants (cf. Fl. Mal. vol. 1, p. 467) as he also collected Java birds,³ and is the author of the published manuscript, in which case he must have been in Indonesia for over thirty years at least.

collections:

Herb. Vienna [W]: at least 6 Java plants collected by Schierbrand (no initials).

literature:

(1) W.C. von Schierbrandt: ‘Reisebericht aus Java in den Jahren 1825-1826 (für die Familie and Freunde als Manuskript herausgeg. von A. Schöne)’ (Königsberg 1888) (non vidi).
(2) Cf. B.E. Smythies in Sarawak Mus. J. 7, 1957, p. 533-534.
(3) Cf. G.C.A. Junge in Ardea 41, 1954, p. 308.

biographical data:

De Indische Navor-Scher 3, 1937, p. 94, portr.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Schierbrand, Wolf C. von
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1807, Bautzen, Germany. Died: 1888, Dresden, Germany.
	career: Colonel, with the Royal Engineers from 1853-?; honorary member of the Natural History Society Isis at Dresden. A general who evidently collected birds round Bandjermasin in the 1850s and presented them to the Austrian Frigate ‘Novara’ during the latter’s scientific voyage round the world, 1857-59 (cf. Fl. Mal. vol. 1 sub Jelinek).² Is cited as the collector of a plant in Java (cf. Mez in Pflanzenreich 9, 1901, p. 32). He might be identical with the author of a travel account on this island.¹ It seems probable that he is the collector of the Java plants (cf. Fl. Mal. vol. 1, p. 467) as he also collected Java birds,³ and is the author of the published manuscript, in which case he must have been in Indonesia for over thirty years at least.
	collections: Herb. Vienna [W]: at least 6 Java plants collected by Schierbrand (no initials).
	literature: (1) W.C. von Schierbrandt: ‘Reisebericht aus Java in den Jahren 1825-1826 (für die Familie and Freunde als Manuskript herausgeg. von A. Schöne)’ (Königsberg 1888) (non vidi). (2) Cf. B.E. Smythies in Sarawak Mus. J. 7, 1957, p. 533-534. (3) Cf. G.C.A. Junge in Ardea 41, 1954, p. 308.
	biographical data: De Indische Navor-Scher 3, 1937, p. 94, portr.