Franz of Paula Adam von Waldstein
Franz of Paula Adam Norbert Wenzel Ludwig Valentine von Waldstein is a soldier, an explorer and German naturalist , born the February 14th 1759 with Vienna and dead the May 24th 1823.
He is married with Karolina Ferdinandi (1777-1844). This soldier takes share with the war in the Turks and the countryside of Russia. He devotes himself, starting from 1789 with botany and voyage with Kitaibel through Hungary. Its herbarium is deposited in Prague.
He is in particular the author, with Pál Kitaibel (1757-1817), of Francisci comitis Waldstein,… and Pauli Kitaibel,… Descriptiones and icons plantarum rariorum Hungariae (M.A. Schmidt, Vienna, three volumes, 1802-1812).
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