Name | Filchner, Wilhelm |
Date of birth | 1877 |
Date of death | 1957 |
Remarks | Born in Bayreuth, Germany, Wilhelm Filchner's first expedition was to Russia, at the age of 21. From 1903 to 1905 Filchner led an expedition to Tibet. He was an officer in the Bavarian army prior to his expedition to Antarctica. http://www.70south.com/resources/history/explorers/filchner [collector note: Kansu, N.E. Tibet] |
ASA Botanist ID | 122178 botanist |
GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/770d0c54-cd21-481c-b5dc-8845c68b533f |
Standard/Label Name | W. Filchner |
Full Name | Filchner, Wilhelm |
Geography Collector | China |
Specialty Collector | Phanerogams |
Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum - Collectors E-H; pers. comm. from Freek Vrugtman |