Carl Borivoj Presl

Carl Borivoj Presl
Born	(1794-02-17)17 February 1794 Prague, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy
Died	2 October 1852(1852-10-02) (aged 58) Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Fields	Botany, Medicine
Alma mater	Charles University
Author abbrev. (botany)	C.Presl

Karel Bořivoj Presl (1794–1852) 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]

References

• WorldCat