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Porsch, Otto

 

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

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

 

Born: 1875, Vienna, Austria. Died: 1959, Vienna, Austria

 

career:

Educated at Vienna, pupil of von Wettstein, taking his Ph.Dr’s degree in 1901; for several years Assistant at Graz and Vienna; since 1912 Professor at Czernowitz (Austria-Hungary). He spent 4 months, from end of Jan.-June 1914, in Java, to study the biology of flowers.1 In 1938 appointed Professor at the Soil Science College, Vienna.

Author of many important critical papers on flower biology.2

 

collections:

Material for demonstration on behalf of instruction.3

 

literature:

(1) ‘Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse seiner botanischen Studienreise nach Java’ (Sitz. Anz. Wiener Akad. Wiss. no 21, 28. Okt. 1915, 8 pp.).

cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 40.

(2) cf. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. l.c. p. 91.

(3) cf.Versl. Pl. Tuin Buitenzorg for 1914, p.57-58.

 

biographical data:

Biologia Generalis 11, 1935, p. i-iv, w. portr.