Ignaz Freiherr von Schaeffer
Austro-Hungarian diplomat. General-consul, London, until 1874. Head of the legation to Japan and China, 1874–7; USA, 1881–6. Responsible for arranging contributions sent from Great Britain to the international exposition in Vienna, 1873.
Sources
Encyclopaedia Sinica p. 189
Matsch 1986, p. 147
Nature 28 September 1871, p. 434
The Times 29 April 1874, p. 12
Bibliography
Encyclopaedia Sinica: The encyclopaedia Sinica. Edited by Samuel Couling, with an introduction by H. J. Lethbridge. Facsimile of 1917 edition published in Shanghai by Kelly and Walsh. Hong Kong, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983.
Matsch, Erwin. 1986. Der auswärtige Dienst von Österreich (–Ungarn) 1720–1920. Vienna: Böhlau.
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