Ignaz von Olfers

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Ignaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers (August 30, 1793 – April 23, 1871) was a German naturalist, historian and diplomat.

Olfers was born in Münster. In 1816 he travelled to Brazil as a diplomat. In 1838 he was made director of the Imperial Museum, Berlin.

Olfers described a number of new mammal species in Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege Journal von Brasilien (1818).

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