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Ignaz Schiffermüller

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Schiffermüller was born in Hellmonsödt near Linz. The baptism record notes the name as Jeremias Ignatio, he was the eighth of ten children of master brewer Leopold Schiffermiller and Maria née Margottin. Jeremias Mitterbauer a meat seller was his godfather. After studies at Linz he joined the Jesuit
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for the saturated colours which he termed as "blühende Farben" (florid colors). He then tried to define tints of each colour. To serve as a model, Schiffermüller himself presents a table classifying and sub-classifying shades of blue, and naming them in German, Latin and French: in all, 81 German
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in 1759 and worked there for fifteen years. During this time he took an interest in natural history, collecting specimens of butterflies. His collection was presented to the old United Royal and Imperial Natural History Collections (Vereinigtes k.k. Naturalien-Cabinet) at the
146:(1772), Schiffermüller addressed the need for a standardised nomenclature with which to describe the countless colours of nature. Work by predecessors in this field had proved unsatisfactory: he mentions suggestions made by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1778) in his 112:. The work did not explicitly state his name as an author but described 1150 species. Because this work also included the names of some new butterfly species, it caused some nomenclatural problems for taxonomists. His collection is in the 167:
terms are listed. Matching this table, and using the same alphabetical notation, is a 3 x 12 matrix showing a set of colour samples for blue, with some discussion of the pigments used.
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Groll, E. K. (Hrsg.): Biografien der Entomologen der Welt : Datenbank. Version 4.15 : Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 2010
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Bálint, Zsolt (2023). "Schiffermüller and the Jesuit lepidopterists of the 18 century: further notes on the "Wiener Systematisches Verzeichniss"".
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Schiffermüller is noteworthy for his work in developing a scientifically based colour nomenclature to aid the description of butterfly coloration.
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order in Vienna at the age of nineteen. From 1752 to 1754 he taught at the Passau Grammar School. He became a teacher at the
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Das Systematische Verzeichnis der Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend herausgegeben von einigen Lehrern am k. k. Theresianum
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Shamey, Renzo (2020). "Schiffermüller, Ignaz 1727–1806". In Shamey, Renzo; Kuehni, Rolf G. (eds.).
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Wien). In 1775 he was named a royal councilor and he moved to Linz, living there until his death.
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German Colour Terms: A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
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was named after him, but the name is now considered an invalid, dated alternative.
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Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend
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Farb-Systeme 1611-2007. Farb-Dokumente in der Sammlung Werner Spillmann
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Gutenberg-e series, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)
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Tóth, Balázs; Katona, Gergely; Bálint, Zsolt (2020-07-31).
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Portrait of Johann Ignaz Schiffermüller (origin unknown)
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Schiffermüller

Hellmonsödt
Linz
Austrian
naturalist
Jesuit
Lepidoptera
Tinea schiffermullerella
Theresianum College
Vienna
Hofburg
revolution in 1848
Michael Denis
Carl Linnaeus
Naturhistorisches Museum

color wheel
Louis Bertrand Castel
colour circle
Versuch eines Farbensystems


"Ignaz Schiffermüller, in seiner Heimat vergessen!"
"The never ending story of Schiffermüller's names - a long evaded nomenclatural issue of pressing urgency and a special case for the ICZN (Insecta: Lepidoptera)"


"Considerations on the historic context surrounding the publications attributed to Denis & Schiffermüller"
doi
10.3897/nl.43.48374

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