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Father Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen, SJ
(1728-1805)
Botanist

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Scott 766 
AUSTRIA
, 1966, Scott 766
AUSTRIA, 2007, stamp personalized by the Wulfenia stamp club from Hermagor, Austria.
Wulfen discovered wulfenia on Gartnerkogel, a mountain southwest of Hermagor.
The painting is by Max Gangl, a native of the village.

Father Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen was born in Belgrade, son of the Austrian lieutenant field-marshal, Christian Friedrich von Wulfen. After studies at Kaschau, Hungary, he joined Jesuits in 1745, studied and taught at the Theresianum in Vienna, at Graz, Neusohl, Gorz, Lailbach, and from 1764, when the Jesuits were suppressed, until his death, at Klagenfurt. A distinguished scholar and botanist especially of the Eastern Alps. Many plants bear the species or subspecies name "Wulfenii" in his honor, and the mineral Wulfenite, an oxide of lead and molybdenum, recalls his mineralogical research. Two species of the genus Wulfenia are represented philatelically W. carinthiaca from Austria, and W. baldacii from Albania. Other stamps and souvenir sheets below illustrate the mineral Wulfenite. More

Scott 839 Scott 649 
CHAD, 2000 dated 1999, Scott 839
MOROCCO, 1987, Scott 649
NAMIBIA,
1991,Scott 687

Scott 286 Scott 637
SLOVENIA, 1997, Scott 286
SOUTH WEST AFRICA, 1989, Scott 637

Scott 2703 Scott 1501
THE UNITED STATES, 1992, Scott 2703
YUGOSLAVIA, 1980, Scott 1501

Scott 988B
CHAD, 1998, second from top, Scott 688B

Scott 934c
CHAD, 2001, lower left, Scott 934c

Scott 933
COMORO ISLANDS, 1998, on the right, Scott 933


GUINEA-BISSAU, 2004, upper left

Scott 952
MALI, 1997, the top center has been identified as barite or Wulfenite, Scott 949, 952

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