> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 474](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066814) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/28915-1) LSID 28915-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q698014) QID Q698014 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wulfen, Franz Xavier, Freiherr von (1728-1805), Austrian Jesuit, teacher and botanist; noviciate at Vienna and Raab 1745-1749; studied philosophy and mathematics at Vienna University; teacher at Görz 1755, Vienna 1756, Laibach 1762; monastic vows 1763; teacher of physics and mathematics at Klagenfurt 1764-1768; from 1769 onward dedicating himself to natural sciences and philantropic work at Klagenfurt. **Abbreviated name**: *Wulfen* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wulfen*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection W|W]] (herb. rd. 1812; ca. 3800 specimens); further material at [[Collection GJO|GJO]] (impt. set), [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection WU|WU]] (alg., lich). – *Letters* to N.J. Jacquin [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB; other letters at [[Collection G|G]]. – *Manuscript*: *Flora norica* at [[Collection W|W]]; see below for publication by Graf and Fenzl (see also Riedl, 1981); also in [[Collection W|W]]: *Icones pictae fungorum austriacorum* (113, col.). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 44: 268-269; AG 2(1): 312, 5(2): 379, 6(2): 558; Backer p. 630, 664; Barnhart 3: 525 (b. 5 Nov 1728, d. 16 Mar 1805); BM 5: 2367; Bossert p. 444; CSP 6: 447; De Toni 1: cxxxv; Dryander 3: 153; DTS 1: 332-333, xxiv, 4: xviii, 6(4): 209; Frank 3 (Anh.): 115-116; GR p. 443-444, *pl. 23*, cat. p. 73; Hawksworth p. 187; Hegi 6(1): 64; Herder p. 149, 193, 255; Hortus 3: 1207; Jackson p. 113, 308; Kanitz 57 (d. 17 Mar 1805); Lasègue p. 331; LS 29388-29391; NI see indexes; PR 10418-10420, ed. 1: 5449, 11372-11373; Quenstedt p. 470; Rehder 5: 234; Saccardo 1: 174, 2: 114, cron. p. xxxvi; Stevenson p. 1263; TL-2/14.884, see E. Fenzl; Tucker 1: 755; WU 58: 265-269 (detailed biogr., sources, d. 17 Mar 1805); Zander ed. 10, p. 734, ed. 11, p. 838. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 10: 361. 1862 (cogn. Leopoldina Lycius II); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print, books 261: 646. 1965; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 227: 730-731. 1977; Flora 22(2): 671-672. 1839 (memorial at Klagenfurt); Portr.-Gallerie Aerzte Naturf. Österr. Kaiserth. 28. 1838 (portr.). - Arnold, F., Verh. zool. bot. Ver. Wien 32: 143-174 \[1-32\]. 1882 (biogr., notes on lichenological work, detailed study). - Bamberger, R. & F. Maier-Bruck, ed., Österreich. Lexikon 2: 1290. 1966. - Beck, G. v., Bot. Centralbl. 33: 250. 1888 (herb. W. acquired 1812); Veg.-Verh. Illyr. Länder 3-4, 414. 1901 (coll. Istria, Croatia). - Bocquet, G., Candollea 34: 209-210. 1979 (curr. vit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.57. 1980. - Cesati, V. de, Saggio bibl. alg. ital. 394. 1882. - Dörfler, I., Botaniker-Porträts 31. 1907 (curr. vit., portr.). - Fenzl, E. & R. Graf, Vorwort der Herausgeber, Wulfen's Flora norica phanerogama 1858, p. iii-xiv (biogr., bibl.; introd. Fl. norica phan.). - Fritsch, K. et al., Bot. Anst. Wiens 56-76. 1894 (herb, at W; 3860 specimens). - Hausmann, F. v., Fl. Tirol 1187-1188. 1854. - Ilg, W., Hoppea 42: 36, 84, 167f. 1984 (on W. and Regensb. bot. Ges.). - Konig, C. & J. Sims, Ann. Bot. 2: 208. 1806 (obit. not.). - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 559. 1969 (alg. W, WU). - Kunitsch, M., Biographie des Franz Xaver Freyherrn v. Wulfen der Weltweisheit Doctor,... Wien (in der Gassler'schen Buchhandlung) 1810, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-35 (*copies*: B-S, LD (biogr., portr.)). - Lack, H.H. & CO. v. Sydow, Willdenowia 14: 446, 449. 1984 (letters to N.J. Jacquin). - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11: 19. 1979 (lich. at M and possibly at W). - Leute, G.H., Carinthia ser. 2. 89: 7-14. 1979 (letter W. to J.A. Frölich; syst. Festuca). - Nardo, G.D., Comm. fauna fl. Véneto e Trent. 1: 201-210. 1868 (zool. work Gulf of Triest). - Neilreich, A., Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 5: 32-33. 1855. - Riedl, H., Taxon 30: 727. 1981 (mss. Flora norica at W., major part on cryptogams still unpublished). - Sabidussi, H., Carinthia 2: 48-55. 1905. - Saccardo, P.A., Storia letteratura Flora véneta 63, 67. 1869. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 520. 1977 (bryoph. at W). - Schönach, H., Jahresber. Real-Ober-Gymn. Feldkirch 27: 60. 1884. - Stafleu, F.A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 193. 1971. - Voss, W., Vers. Gesch. Bot. Krain 17-20, 40. 1884. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 87, 186. 1903. #### Composite works *Plantae rariores Carinthiaceae, in* N.J. v. Jacquin, *Misc. Austriac.* 1: 147-163, *pl. 2* (col.). 1778 (1779), 2: 25-138, *pl. 21* (col.). 1781 (1782), *Collectanea* 1: 186-364, *pl. 6-21.* 1786, 2: 112-234, *pl*. 8-17. 1788, 3: 3-166, *pl. 1-17*. 1789, 4: 227-348, *pl. 4-8, 10-20. *1790. #### Handwriting Candollea 34: 209-210. 1979, Carinthia ser. 2. 89: 8-9. 1979. #### Eponymy *Wulfenia* N.J. v. Jacquin (1781). #### Note For remarks on Wulfen's descriptions on lichens published in N.J. von Jacquin, Collectanea 2: 112ff. 1788, see J.E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 10-14. 1 Mai 1794. ### Publications ##### n.18.368. Cryptogama aquatica **Title** Xaveri de Wulfen abbatis klagenfurthensis *Cryptogama aquatica*... Lipsiae \[Leipzig\] (sumtibus bibliopolii Schaeferiani) 1803. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Crypt. aquat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1803, p. \[i\], \[1\]-64, *pl. 1* (uncol. copp. C. Melling). *Coples*: G, NY. – Preprinted or reprinted from J.J. Roemer, Arch. Bot. 3(1-2): 1-64, *pl. I.* 1803. ##### n.18.369. Plantarum rariorum descriptiones **Title** Francisci Xaverii Wulfen,... *Plantarum rariorum descriptiones*... Lipsiae \[Leipzig\] (sumtibus bibliopoli Schaeferiani) 1805. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *pl rar. descr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr-Mai 1805 (or somewhat earlier as preprint), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-116. *Coples*: G, HH, NY; IDC 8764. – Preprinted or reprinted from J.J. Roemer, Arch. Bot. 3(3): 312-426. 1805. ##### n.18.370. Flora norica phanerogama **Title** Franz Xaver Freiherrn von Wulfen's *Flora norica phanerogama*. Im Auftrage des Zoologisch-botanischen Vereines in Wien herausgegeben... Wien (Druck und Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn) 1858. Oct. (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. norica phan.* **Notes** *Editors*: Eduard Fenzl (1808-1879), see TL-2/1: 823-824, and Rainer Graf (1811-1872). *Publ*.: Apr 1858 (p. xii: 13 Jan 1858; ÖbZ 1 Mai 1858; Bonplandia 15 Mai 1858), p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-816. *Coples*: G, H, HH, L, M, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 8765. *Review*: Ign. Tomaschek, *Wulfen's Flora norica phanerogama*, Jahrb. nat. Hist. Mus. Kärnten 5: 57-70. 1862, repr. s.l.n.d. p. \[1\]-15. *Copy*: B. *Noricum*: the classical Noricum corresponded roughly to the later Upper and Lower Austria, south of the Danube, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia and parts of Tirol and Bavaria. Fenzl and Graf provide details in their introduction to the *Fl norica phan*.; for Wulfen the emphasis was on Carinthia. The mss. (at W) contains still further unpublished parts, see Riedl 1981).