Josef Schiller

'''Josef Schiller''' (16 June 1877, in Ringelsheim (Bohemia) – 1960) was an Austrian phycologist and hydrobiologist.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1905. Afterwards he was an assistant at the zoological station in Trieste (1905-1910), where he developed an expertise involving benthic algae and phytoplankton.<ref>[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000153876?history=true JSTOR Global Plants] (biography)</ref> From 1918 he worked as a lecturer of botanical hydrobiology at the University of Vienna, and in 1927 he became an associate professor on the aforementioned subject.<ref name="BH">{{Cite book |last=Stafleu |first=Frans A. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333297#page/173/mode/1up |title=Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Volume V, Sal-Ste |last2=Cowan |first2=Richard S. |date=1976 |publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema |isbn=978-90-313-0631-2 |edition=2nd |volume=v.5 (1985) [Authors Sal-Ste]` |location=Utrecht/Antwerpen |pages=158-159}}</ref>

He was a visiting scientist at marine stations in Helgoland, Ragusa, Spolato and Rovigno d'Istria, giving classes in botanical hydrobiology.<ref name=BH/> Later in his career, he conducted research in the field of apiology, being known for his studies on the physiological differences between summer and winter bees. From 1938 to 1947, he was in charge of the investigative body for infectious bee diseases at Vienna's University of Veterinary Medicine.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Dr. Josef Schiller |url=https://www.zobodat.at/personen.php?id=13290&bio=full |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130918015826/http://www.zobodat.at/D/runD/D/cacheD/personen_details.php?nr=13290 |archive-date=2013-09-18 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=Zobodat Personen}}</ref>

The genera ''Schilleriella'', ''Schillerochloris'' and ''Schilleriomonas'' are named after him,<ref name=BH/> as is the algae species ''Entodictyon schilleri'', named in Schiller's honor by Victor Félix Schiffner (1862-1944).<ref>[http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html Petymol.s.html - TMBL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060129194502/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html |date=2006-01-29 }} Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. S</ref>

== Selected published works == * "Vorläufige Ergebnisse der Phytoplankton-Untersuchungen auf den Fahrten S. M. S. "Najade" in der Adria 1911/12. I. Die Coccolithophoriden", (1913) - Preliminary results of phytoplankton studies undertaken on voyages of the SMS "Naiad" in the Adriatic in 1911/12, The coccolithophores. * "Österreichische Adriaforschung: Bericht Über Die Allgemeinen Biologischen Verhältnisse Der Flora Des Adriatischen Meeres", 1914 - Austrian Adriatic research: Report on the general biological conditions of flora from the Adriatic Sea. * "Die planktonischen Vegetationen des adriatischen Meeres", 1926 - Planktonic vegetation of the Adriatic Sea. * "Dinoflagellatae": Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Volume 2, (1933). * "Flagellatae: Dinoflagellatae in monographischer Behandlung, Parts 2-3", (1937) - Flagellatae: A monographic treatment of Dinoflagellatae. * "Untersuchungen an den planktischen Protophyten des Neusiedler Sees 1950-1954" -Investigations of planktonic Protophyta of Lake Neusiedl from 1950 to 1954.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schiller |first=Josef |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Untersuchungen_an_den_planktischen_Proto.html?id=UfMgzwEACAAJ |title=Untersuchungen an den planktischen Protophyten des Neusiedlersees 1950-1954: (II Teil). |date=1955 |publisher=Burgenländisches Landesmuseum und das Institut für die wissenschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Erforschung des Neusiedler Sees |language=de}}</ref> ---- Schiller issued the exsiccata ''Algae Adriaticae exsiccatae'' and superseding series, in parts with Hermann Josef Cammerloher and Gustav Seefeldner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Algae Adriaticae exsiccatae 1-30 |url=http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=821806311 |access-date=26 July 2024 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Algae Adriaticae exsiccatae 31-60 |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/Databhttp://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=821806311aseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=203186560 |access-date=26 July 2024 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München}}</ref>

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