Carl Borivoj Presl Explained

Carl Borivoj Presl
Birth Date:	1794 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Prague, Bohemia, Habsburg monarchy
Death Place:	Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Fields:	Botany, Medicine
Alma Mater:	Charles University
Author Abbrev Bot:	C.Presl

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

Biography

Presl 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 from the family Boraginaceae, (now a synonym of Euploca ^[5]) and Preslia Opiz, 1824 of the family Lamiaceae (it is also now a synonym of Woodsia ^[6]) are dedicated to the two brothers.^[1] 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.^[7]

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.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Author abbreviation

See also

• • 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.^[11]
• "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.^[12]
• Hymenophyllaceae, 1845 – Monograph on Hymenophyllaceae.
• "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847.
• Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn, 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of ferns.^[13]

External links

• • • • WorldCat

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189861#page/405/mode/1up BHL
2. http://www.paeon.de/aaa/09210.html Kifissia, Greece: Goulandris Natural History Museum, J.Makris (1984)
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0loznAEACAAJ Google Books
4. http://www.preslia.cz/ Preslia
5. Web site: Preslaea Mart. Plants of the World Online. Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 21 November 2021.
6. Web site: Preslia Opiz Plants of the World Online. Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 21 November 2021.
7. Web site: Presliophytum (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend Plants of the World Online. Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 28 May 2021.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=BdFuHC3DhwAC&dq=Presl+%22Thaddaeus+Haenke%22&pg=PA337 Google Books
9. Web site: Reliquiae Haenkeanae: IndExs ExsiccataID=312936576 . IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 14 May 2024.
10. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
11. http://www.botanicus.org/title/b12043606 Botanicus
12. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Karel+Bo%C5%99iwog+Presl%22 Google Search
13. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Karl+Bo%C5%99iwoj+Presl%22 Google Search