Ignaz Schiffermüller
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Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727 - 1806) was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. He was a teacher at the Theresianum college in Vienna. His collection was presented to the old United Royal and Imperial Natural History Collections (Vereinigtes k.k. Naturalien-Cabinet) at the Hofburg where it burnt during the revolution in 1848. With Michael Denis also a teacher at the Theresianum college he published the first index of the Lepidoptera of the Viennese region das Systematische Verzeichnis der Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend herausgegeben von einigen Lehrern am k. k. Theresianum (1775). His collection is in the Kaiserlichen Hof-Naturalienkabinett (now Naturhistorisches Museum Wien).

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