Franz Xaver von Wulfen

Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest.

His father, Christian Friedrich von Wulfen, was a high-ranking lieutenant in the Austrian Army of Swedish descent.

Following his graduation, he became a school instructor (chiefly of mathematics and physics) in Vienna, Graz, Neusohl, Gorz, Laibach (Ljubljana), and from 1764 Klagenfurt.

The genus Wulfenia (in the family Plantaginaceae) was named in 1782 in his honor by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.

[5] Then in 1980 botanist D.Y.Hong published Wulfeniopsis which is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae, it also honor's Franz Xaver von Wulfen.