Carl Borivoj Presl

Carl Borivoj Presl (Template:Langx; 17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a Czech botanist. Template:Botanist

Biography

Presl lived his entire life in Prague, and was a professor of botany at the University of Prague (1833–52).<ref name=BH>BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref> He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817,<ref>Kifissia, Greece: Goulandris Natural History Museum, J.Makris (1984) Paeonia mascula</ref> and with his brother, published a "Flora bohemica" titled "Flora čechica: indicatis medicinalibus, oeconomicis technologicisque plantis" in 1819.<ref>Google Books Flora čechica: indicatis medicinalibus, oeconomicis technologicisque plantis</ref>

His older brother Jan Svatopluk Presl was also a noted botanist; the journal Preslia of the Czech Botanical Society is named in their honor.<ref>Preslia The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society</ref> The botanical genera Preslaea Mart., 1827 from the family Boraginaceae, (now a synonym of Euploca Template:Small<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> ) and Preslia Opiz, 1824 of the family Lamiaceae (it is also now a synonym of Woodsia Template:Small<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) are dedicated to the two brothers.<ref name=BH/> In 2006, botanists (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend published Presliophytum, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Loasaceae which also honours Carl Borivoj Presl's name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gravesite of the Presl brothers at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague

He spent nearly 15 years producing the exsiccata "Reliquiae Haenkeanae" (published from 1825 to 1835), a work based on botanical specimens collected in the Americas by Thaddaeus Haenke.<ref>Google Books Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists edited by Keir Brooks Sterling</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Triebel & Scholz 2001-2024">Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. </ref>

See also

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• Jan Svatopluk Presl (J.Presl, 1791–1849) — Czech chemist/mineralogist/botanist, and older brother of Carl Presl.

References

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.<ref>Botanicus Reliquiae Haenkeanae</ref>
• "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.<ref>Google Search publications)</ref>
• Hymenophyllaceae, 1845 – Monograph on Hymenophyllaceae.
• "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847.
• Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn, 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of ferns.<ref>Google Search publications</ref>

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