Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (February 18, 1799 – May 27, 1878) was a German-Austrian

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born in

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. He obtained his education in Königsberg and Berlin, later serving as a director of a chemical factory in

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). Following a stint as a school teacher in

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(1853–54), he worked as a private scientist in Vienna (1854–70), Brunn and Bielitz. Schur was author of the highly regarded ''Enumeratio plantarum Transsilvaniae'', a work that was a result of nine years of botanical research in

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. Another noted work on Transylvanian flora of his was ''Sertum florae Transsilvaniae'' (1853). Taxa with the specific epithet of ''schurii'' commemorate his name.Bribie Island Orchid Society
botanical eponyms

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* [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=764FFEDE90C102B17D6256D21EECD545?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=Schur&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch IPNI] List of taxa described & co-described by Schur. Scientists from Königsberg 19th-century Austrian botanists 1799 births 1878 deaths {{austria-botanist-stub