Victor Wilhelm Lindauer (1888–1964) was a New Zealand phycologist, collector and teacher. The son of New Zealand painter

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, he was born in 1888 in Auckland, and grew up in Woodville, spending a considerable part of his boyhood in the native bush. He trained as a teacher and after two years service in

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with the US Army, he returned to New Zealand. In 1927 Lindauer married Elsie (née Lovell), and in 1931, after the births of four children, the family moved to Russell where he had been appointed headmaster of the primary school. In 1935,

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and a team of phycologists from the

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came to Russell to collect seaweeds and enlisted his help to provide a place (the local school) to handle their material. They also invited him to participate, and thus began his lifelong quest to collect New Zealand seaweeds. The school children whom he taught collected for him and with him. Other schoolmasters were also enlisted, not only on the North Island, but also R. Gilpin, a headmaster on the Chatham Islands. On Stewart Island, he contacted Eileen Willa, and she, too, became an avid collector. Between 1939 and 1953 Lindauer created and distributed about 60 sets of the exsiccata work ''Algae Nova-Zelandicae Exsiccatae'' in 14 fascicles of 25 sheets, meaning 350 numbered specimen units. The sets have since been used as reference material for many taxonomic studies of New Zealand algae.

Selected publications

* * * * * * * * * * * Gelidium allanii var atropurpurea AK 280543VLindauer1.jpg, '' Gelidium allanii'' AK 280543 Champia laingii Lindauer (AM AK143927).jpg, ''

Champia laingii ''Champia laingii'' is a marine red algal species endemic to New Zealand. It is a striking small seaweed, it is dark red but often shows an iridescent blue or green colour. It grows up to 40 cm and is often appears as a tangled mat. It is ...

'' (AK143927) Gigartina cranwellae.jpg, '' Gigartina cranwellae'' (US 10979) Sargasso sinclairii.jpg, '' Sargasso sinclairii'' (MNHN PC0539561) Dictyota papenfussii Lindauer (AM AK348031).jpg, '' Dictyota papenfussii'' (AM AK348031)

References

1888 births 1964 deaths 20th-century New Zealand botanists Phycologists Scientists from Auckland People from Woodville, New Zealand {{NewZealand-botanist-stub