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### Author
Wolf, Ferdinand Otto (1838-1906), German (Thüringian)-born Swiss botanist and musician; educated as choir and solo church singer in Ellwangen; teacher at Feldkirch 1856-1858; to Wallis (Switzerland) 1858; teacher of music and natural history at Brig 1858-1861; organist and music teacher at Sion from 1861; student of the flora of the Wallis Alps; one of the founders and later president of the Société Murithienne.
**Abbreviated name**: *F.O. Wolf* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.O.Wolf*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection Z|Z]]. – Further material in [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]] (extant, herb. Ullepitsch), [[Collection BAS|BAS]], [[Collection BIRM|BIRM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection IBF|IBF]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection LAU|LAU]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 5(2): 452-453, 12(3): 21; Barnhart 3: 512 (b. 11 Oct 1838, d. 27 Jun 1905); BL 2: 586, 733; BM 5: 2448; Rehder 5: 930; Saccardo 2: 114; Urban-Berl. p. 411.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Jahrb. 38, Beibl. 87: 42. 1906 (d.); Hist.-biogr. Lex. Schweiz 7: 584. 1934.
- Besse, Ch.M., Verh. schweiz. naturf Ges. 104(2): 13-32. 1923.
- Besse, M. & H. Schinz, Verh. Schweiz. naturf. Ges. St. Gallen 89: 144-147. 1906 (bibl.).
- Christ, H., Verh. schweiz. naturf. Ges. St. Gallen 89: cxl-cxliii. 1906 (obit. portr.).
- Fischer, E., Bibl. natl. Suisse 4(5): 20, 76, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 155, 160, 161, 172, 180, 187, 190, 191, 195. 1901 (bibl.).
- Gave, P., Bull. Murith. 34: 224-240. 1907 (repr. 23 p.) (obit., bibl., list new taxa).
- Jaccard, H., Cat. fl. Valais. xii-xiii. 1895.
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 4: 276, 446. 1938.
#### Composite works
Editor, with R. Ritz, of A. Rion, *Guide bot. Valais*, 1872, TL-2/9246.