Carl Borivoj Presl

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

Karel Bořivoj Presl (17941852) 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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. "Author Query for 'C.Presl'". International Plant Names Index.
See also: Presl