Alexander Zahlbruckner

Alexander Zahlbruckner (31 May 1860, Svätý Jur – 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian-Hungarian botanist who specialized in the study of lichens.

[2] From 1878 to 1883 he studied at the University of Vienna, where his instructors included Anton Kerner von Marilaun and Julius Wiesner.

From 1920, he was member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences In retirement, he continued his studies in the field of lichenology.

[6] Zahlbruckner is known for publication of Catalogus lichenum universalis, a catalog of all published names of lichens, issued in ten volumes from 1922 up until 1940.

[8] In 1910, botanist Albert William Herre published the fungal genus Zahlbrucknera (later Zahlbrucknerella) in Zahlbruckner's honour.