Josef Dostál (botanist)

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Josef Dostál
Born(1903-12-20)20 December 1903
Prague
Died11 May 1999(1999-05-11) (aged 95)
Prague
NationalityCzech
Scientific career
Fields
pteridology, taxonomy conservation
Author abbrev. (botany)Dostál

Josef Dostál (20 December 1903 – 11 May 1999) was a Czech botanist, pteridologist, conservationist, climber, hiker and university teacher. He was professor of botany at the

Charles University in Prague
. He was the founder of the modern Czech scientific taxonomy of higher plants, working mainly with morphology of higher plants found in Czechoslovakia.

Career

Josef Dostál was born in 1903 in

Palacky University.[2]

As a university lecturer and professor he introduced the first lectures on

paleophytogeography
and evolutionary morphology. Professor Dostál was the author or co-author of numerous scientific studies in the field of botany and botanical and morphological terminology and also made a start on the geographical classification of the vegetation of Czechoslovakia. He prepared the Czech translation of nomenclature rules, worked on the Dictionary of Standard Czech and managed as a technical editor of works in the natural science section of an agricultural encyclopedia.

Professor Dostál published a number of professional, scientific and popular-scientific works in many fields of botany. His professional activities include higher plant systematics, taxonomy, floristics, morphology, phytosociology, phytogeography, Czechoslovak vegetation, dendrology, conservation, genetics and more. His major work was "Flora of Czechoslovakia" and "Key to the complete flora of Czechoslovakia." Professor Dostál 's diligence, his talent and vitality achieved international scientific recognition. He was a regional adviser to

Flora Europea and prepared the material on ferns for an edition of Hegi
's Flora von Mittel-Europa. He took an active part in many international congresses and meetings (England, Spain, Italy, Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey and Egypt). He was a member of the Czech, Slovak and Bulgarian Botanical Societies.

At home and abroad he published in professional and popular botanical journals, lectured to members of the Czech Botanical Society and similar societies abroad. He was also a longtime member of the Czech Union for Nature Conservation. He died 11 May 1999 in Prague.

Honours

In 1998 he received the Minister of the Environment Award for his lifetime achievement in the field of botany [1]

Taxa named in his honour

Works

  • Květena ČSR I (Flora of Czechoslovakia I)
  • Květena ČSR II (Flora of Czechoslovakia II)
  • Klíč k úplné květeně ČSR (Key for the Flora of Czechoslovakia)
The standard author abbreviation Dostál is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ministry of the Environment Awards 1994-2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
  2. ^ Palacky University Department of Botany
  3. ^ Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 38: 304 1935 (IK)
  4. ^ Mem. Soc. Sci. Boheme 1932, No. 17, 23 1933 (IK)
  5. ^ Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 21(4): 426 1986 (IK)
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Dostál.

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