Viktor Janka Explained

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 Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania.[2]

He discovered and described several plant species, including the Hungarian crocus (Colchicum hungaricum).[3]

The monotypic relict genus Jankaea, the orchid species Himantoglossum jankae and Chamaecytisus jankae are named after him.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: J - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . www.uni-goettingen.de . 20 May 2021 . de.
  2. Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift January 1865, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-5 Victor von Janka August Neilreich
  3. Web site: Janka Viktor | Hungarian Natural History Museum . 2016-01-27 . 2016-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160202183518/http://web.nhmus.hu/en/node/372 . dead .