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Victor Félix Schiffner

Victor Félix Schiffner is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Victor Félix Schiffner rather than just read about it. In short: Victor Félix Schiffner (10 August 1862, Böhmisch-Leipa – 1 December 1944, Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian bryologist specializing in the study of hepatics. Biography He studied natural sciences at the University of Prague, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer and as an assistant to Heinrich Moritz Willkomm at the botanical garden.

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Reference excerpt

Victor Félix Schiffner (10 August 1862, Böhmisch-Leipa – 1 December 1944, Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian bryologist specializing in the study of hepatics.

Biography He studied natural sciences at the University of Prague, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer and as an assistant to Heinrich Moritz Willkomm at the botanical garden. In 1893-94 he was stationed in the Dutch East Indies, being based at the Buitenzorg herbarium on Java. In the meantime, he collected liverwort specimens on Java and Sumatra. In 1895 he returned to Prague, being appointed professor of botany at the university. In 1901 he participated in a government sponsored mission to southern Brazil, where he collected bryophytes. After returning to Austria, he was appointed professor at the University of Vienna, where he remained until 1932 (year of retirement). During the latter part of his career, he focused his energies towards flora native to Europe. Between 1895 and 1943 Schiffner edited several exsiccatae and exsiccata-like series distributing a large number of specimens, among others the series Expositio plantarum in itinere suo indico annis 1893-1894 suscepto collectarum speciminibusque exsiccatis distributarum, adjectis descriptionibus novarum (abbrev. Iter Indicum 1893-1894) and between 1901 and 1943 the work Hepaticae Europaeae exsiccatae. His personal herbarium contained 50,000 hepatics and mosses, a collection that was acquired by Harvard University in 1931.

Taxa The following genera are named in his honor:

Schiffneria, (author Franz Stephani, 1894), genus of liverworts, Schiffnerina, (author Otto Kuntze, 1903), former genus of liverworts, Schiffnerula (author Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel, 1909), genus of fungi, Phaeoschiffnerula (author Theiss. 1914), former genus of fungi, Schiffneriolejeunea, (author Inez Clare Verdoorn, 1933), genus of liverworts,

Published works He was editor of the section on Hepaticae in Engler and Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. The following are a few of his principal writings:

Monographia Hellebororum, 1890. Conspectus hepaticarum archipelagi Indici, 1898. Die Hepaticae der Flora von Buitenzorg, 1900. Kritische Bemerkungen über die europäischen Lebermoose mit Bezug auf die Exemplare des Exsiccatenwerkes Hepaticae europeae exsiccatae, 1901. Hepaticae (Lebermoose), 1909. Bryophyta (Sphagnales - Bryales - Hepaticae), (with Carl Friedrich Warnstorf and Wilhelm Mönkemeyer), (1914) In: Adolf Pascher's "Süsswasser-flora. Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz". Studien über Algen des adriatischen Meeres, 1915 - Studies on algae of the Adriatic Sea.

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Victor Félix Schiffner ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Victor Félix Schiffner

In research: Victor Félix Schiffner appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Victor Félix Schiffner in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Victor Félix Schiffner is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1862 births, 1944 deaths, 19th-century Austrian botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Victor Félix Schiffner outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Victor Félix Schiffner (10 August 1862, Böhmisch-Leipa – 1 December 1944, Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian bryologist specializing in the study of hepatics. Biography He studied natural sciences at the University of Prague, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer and as an assistant to Heinrich M…

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