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Carl Borivoj Presl
Born(1794-02-17)17 February 1794
Prague, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy
Died2 October 1852(1852-10-02) (aged 58)
Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Alma materCharles University
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Medicine
Author abbrev. (botany)C.Presl

Karel Bořivoj Presl (17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a Czech botanist.

He lived his entire life in Prague, and was a professor of botany at the University of Prague (1833–52).[1] He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817,[2] and with his brother, published a "Flora bohemica" titled "Flora čechica: indicatis medicinalibus, oeconomicis technologicisque plantis" in 1819.[3]

His older brother Jan Svatopluk Presl was also a noted botanist; the journal Preslia of the Czech Botanical Society is named in their honor.[4] The botanical genera Preslaea Mart., 1827 (family Boraginaceae) and Preslia Opiz, 1824 (family Lamiaceae) are dedicated to the two brothers.[1]

Gravesite of the Presl brothers at the Vysehrad Cemetery in Prague.

He spent nearly 15 years producing the "Reliquiae Haenkeanae" (published from 1825 to 1835), a work based on botanical specimens collected in the Americas by Thaddaeus Haenke.[5]

Bibliography

  • Carl Bořivoj Presl: "Reliquiae Haenkeanae : seu descriptiones et icones plantarum, quas in America meridionali et boreali, in insulis Philippinis et Marianis collegit Thaddaeus Haenke". J.G. Calve, Prague, 1825 to 1835.[6]
  • "Flora sicula, exhibens plantas vasculosas in Sicilia aut sponte crescentes aut frequentissime cultas, secundum systema naturale digestas", 1826.
  • "Symbolae botanicae, sive, Descriptiones et icones plantarum novarum aut minus cognitarum", 1832.
  • "Catalogue of Ferns: After the Arrangement of C. Sprengel", 1841; Whittaker and Company, 1841.[7]
  • Hymenophyllaceae, 1845 – Monograph on Hymenophyllaceae.
  • "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847.
  • Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn, 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of ferns.[8]
The standard author abbreviation C.Presl is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. ^ Kifissia, Greece: Goulandris Natural History Museum, J.Makris (1984) Paeonia mascula
  3. ^ Google Books Flora čechica: indicatis medicinalibus, oeconomicis technologicisque plantis
  4. ^ Preslia The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society
  5. ^ Google Books Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists edited by Keir Brooks Sterling
  6. ^ Botanicus Reliquiae Haenkeanae
  7. ^ Google Search publications)
  8. ^ Google Search publications
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  C.Presl.
See also: Presl


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