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József Dorner

József Dorner (2 November 1808 – 9 October 1873), was a Hungarian educator and botanist. He was born József Thurner the Younger, was born to German parents József Thurner the Elder, a merchant, and Zsuzsanna Schmidt. A pharmacist by trade, he also worked as a schoolteacher and is best known today as a botanist. By 1831, or 1834, he had changed his family name to Dorner at the time of his registration as a nobleman. This spelling is also his botanical author abbreviation Dorner. According to Szmodits, he married in 1845 but they remained childless, with his wife predeceasing him.

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