Franz Xaver von Wulfen
Botanist, Religious Leader
1728 – 1805
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Who was Franz Xaver von Wulfen?
Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen was a botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants Wulfenia carinthiaca, Saxifraga moschata, and Stellaria bulbosa. In 1845 the lead molybdate mineral wulfenite was named in his honor by Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger.
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