Viktor Janka
Viktor Janka von Bulcs, often shortened to Viktor Janka (24 December 1837 in Vienna - 9 August 1890 in Budapest) was an Austrian military officer and botanist. He worked as the officer of a Cuirassier regiment (armoured cavalry soldiers) for the Imperial Austrian Army until 1870. He was then named curator of the botanical department of the Budapest National Museum. [1]He ceased working for the museum in 1889 and died one year later in the same city. Janka had collected many botanical specimens throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his types are housed in the herbarium of the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.[2]
He discovered and described several plant species, including the Hungarian crocus ().[3]
The standard author abbreviation Janka is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
The monotypic relict genus , the orchid species and are named after him.
External links[]
- "Janka von Bulcs Viktor". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 3, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 74.
References[]
- 1837 births
- 1890 deaths
- Hungarian botanists