Josef (Joseph) August Schultes was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the father of Julius Hermann Schultes (1804–1840).
Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, or Anton Joseph Kerner, was an Austrian botanist and professor at the University of Vienna. The standard author abbreviation A.Kern. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Richard Wettstein was an Austrian botanist. His taxonomic system, the Wettstein system, was one of the earliest based on phyletic principles.
Otto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father.
Giorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan. He was the first director of the natural history museum at Milan.
Alois Auer was an Austrian printer, inventor and botanical illustrator, most active during the 1840s and 1850s. He produced a number of works in German and other languages, including the first regarding the nature printing process. He was the director of the Austrian state's official printing house, which created illustrated volumes of scientific interest and produced many advances in printing technology. His full name in later life, incorporating the Austrian hereditary knighthood that he was given in 1860, was Alois Ritter Auer von Welsbach.
Franz de Paula Hladnik was a Carniolan botanist and schoolmaster.
Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy Polish: Teodor Koczy was an Austrian botanist and explorer. On his botanical investigations, Kotschy collected large amounts of plants. For example, he described forty species of oak in this work, most of which are now considered synonyms, but Quercus look is recognised as valid.
Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Völkermarkt.
Eugen von Halácsy, also known as Jenő Halácsy was an Austrian physician and botanist of Hungarian descent.
Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper was an Austrian plant collector, botanist and professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was the son of amateur botanist Friedrich Vierhapper (1844–1903), botanical abbreviation- "F.Vierh.".
Muzio Giuseppe Spirito de Tommasini, sometimes referred to as Muzio Tommasini or as Mutius von Tommasini was a botanist and politician born in Trieste when it was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Heinrich Raphael Eduard Freiherr von Handel-Mazzetti was an Austrian botanist best known for his monograph of dandelions, many publications on the flora of China, and botanical explorations of that country. He was the cousin of novelist Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1871-1955).
Anton Eleutherius Sauter was an Austrian physician and botanist.
Emil Erwin Alfred Ritter von Janchen-Michel was an Austrian botanist.
Joseph August Schenk was an Austrian-born, German botanist and paleobotanist.
Leopold Trattinnick was an Austrian botanist and mycologist. He was a curator of the Royal Natural History collection in Vienna. He published several mycological and other botanical works. Most of these works were illustrated with engravings and many of them were hand coloured. He also gave out collections of wax replicas of species of fungi and later sponges.
Karl Gustav Limpricht was a German schoolteacher and bryologist. His son, Hans Wolfgang Limpricht, was a botanical collector in China.
Rudolf Karl Friedrich von Uechtritz was a German botanist. He was the son of Max von Uechtritz (1785–1851), a German rittmeister who conducted entomological and botanical studies.
Josef Karl Maly (1797–1866) was a physician botanist closely associated with the town of Graz, Austria. He published multiple works on Austrian flora, with a particular focus on medicinal and economic botany.
