Viktor Janka

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Viktor Janka von Bulcs, often shortened to Viktor Janka (24 December 1837 in Vienna - 9 August 1890 in Budapest) was an Austrian military officer and botanist. He worked as the officer of a Cuirassier regiment (armoured cavalry soldiers) for the Imperial Austrian Army until 1870. He was then named curator of the botanical department of the Budapest National Museum.{{cite web |title=J - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187061.html |website=www.uni-goettingen.de |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=de}} He ceased working for the museum in 1889 and died one year later in the same city. Janka had collected many botanical specimens throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his types are housed in the herbarium of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania.Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift January 1865, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-5 Victor von Janka August Neilreich

He discovered and described several plant species, including the Hungarian crocus (Colchicum hungaricum).{{Cite web |url=http://web.nhmus.hu/en/node/372 |title=Janka Viktor | Hungarian Natural History Museum |access-date=2016-01-27 |archive-date=2016-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202183518/http://web.nhmus.hu/en/node/372 |url-status=dead }}

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The monotypic relict genus Jankaea, the orchid species Himantoglossum jankae and Chamaecytisus jankae are named after him.