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Biographical data

 

Fruhstorfer, Hans

 

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

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

 

Born: 1866. Died: 1922, Munich, Germany.

 

career:

From 1888-1905 insect dealer at Berlin, later settled as private collector at Geneva and Munich. He travelled in Ceylon and Penang (1889), Java (1891/94), Celebes, Bali & Lombok (1895/96), and besides in N. America, Japan, and in several parts of Asia.

Macromitrium fruhstorferi Card. is named after him.

 

collections:

He is cited as the collector of 62 nos of mosses on the Buakraeng ( = Wawakraeng, one of the summits of G. Bonthain) in SW. Celebes.1 This collection includes 12 new species and one new genus. He may have collected in other islands too; up till now no collection of phanerogams is known to us. 

Bryophytes from Celebes (1895), also in Herb. Edinb. [E].

 

literature:

(1) J. Cardot: ‘Note sur deux collections de Mousses de l’Archipel Indien’ (Rev. Bryol. 1901, p. 112-117).

 

biographical data:

The Entomologist 55, 1922, p. 144; in Musgrave, Bibliogr. Austr. Entom. 1775-1930, 1932; W. Horn & I. Kahle, Über entomologische Sammlungen etc. (Entomol. Beihefte II-IV, 1935/37), p. 83.