Viktor Janka

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Viktor Janka von Bulcs, usually known as Viktor Janka, was born on 24 December 1837 in Vienna and died on 9 August 1890 in Budapest. He was an Austrian military officer and botanist. He served as an officer in a cuirassier regiment of the Imperial Austrian Army until 1870, then became curator of the botanical department at the Budapest National Museum. He left the museum in 1889 and died a year later in Budapest.

Janka collected many plant specimens across the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His type specimens are kept in the herbarium of Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania. He described several plant species, including the Hungarian crocus, Colchicum hungaricum. In botanical naming, his author abbreviation is Janka.

A small genus named Jankaea honors him, and two species, the orchid Himantoglossum jankae and the shrub Chamaecytisus jankae, are also named after him.