Carl Borivoj Presl

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

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

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]

Author abbreviation

See also
  • Taxa named by Carl Borivoj Presl (C.Presl)
  • Jan Svatopluk Presl (J.Presl, 1791–1849) — Czech chemist/mineralogist/botanist, and older brother of Carl Presl.

References
  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. IPNI.  C.Presl.

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.[1]
  • "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.[2]
  • Hymenophyllaceae, 1845 – Monograph on Hymenophyllaceae.
  • "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847.
  • Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn, 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of ferns.[3]


  1. Botanicus Reliquiae Haenkeanae
  2. Google Search publications)
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