Daniel Sloboda

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Daniel Sloboda (born December 20, 1809 in Skalica , † November 10, 1888 in Rusava ) was a Slovak, k. k. Austrian Protestant clergyman, botanist , translator and ethnographer . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Sloboda ".

Life

After studying theology in Pressburg, the son of a shoemaker worked as a chaplain in Myjava from 1833 . On April 14, 1837 he became the Protestant pastor of Rottalowitz(today Rusava) appointed. Sloboda held this office for 51 years until his death. After taking office, he had the dilapidated rectory renovated in order to have an apartment for his family to be founded. He married in 1840. At that time, a wooden prayer hall on the site of today's school garden served as a place of worship. In 1863 the evangelical school was opened in Rusava. Since the congregation's funds were exhausted by the construction of the school, the pastor traveled to Vienna, Brno, Leipzig and Dresden in order to enable a church to be built through donations and support. The construction of the church began two years later and it took 17 years to complete due to financial hardship in the community. The masonry work was completed in 1872, and the church tower was finally completed in 1878. A bell could only be hung in 1882; its casting was financed by the Mozola family, who had previously donated the crystal chandelier to the church.

Sloboda was the brother-in-law of Jozef Miloslav Hurban . He had a close friendship with Ján Kollár and František Sušil . His grave is in the Rusava cemetery. A memorial plaque was placed in his honor at the Protestant rectory.

plant

In addition to his spiritual duties, Sloboda worked in close cooperation with František Sušil as a collector of folk songs. He achieved importance primarily through his botanical work. In 1852, Sloboda published Rostlinnictví, čili Návod k snadnému určení a pojmenování rostlin v Čechách, Moravě a jiných zemích Rakouského mocnářství domácích, the first plant identification book to be published in the Czech language . In it Sloboda described on 736 pages and a 48-page preface over 3000 species in 660 genera. Initially, he thought about a translation of PF Cürie's botanical studies published in Kittlitz in 1840 . Instructions to determine the plants growing wildly and cultivated in the middle and northern Germany in an easy and safe way by own investigation , which included almost 2000 species in 589 genera. Finally, Sloboda also included all species from Joseph August Schultes Oestreich's flora in his work. He took the Czech plant names from Jan Svatopluk Presls O přirozenosti rostlin aneb Rostlinář and added popular names to them. His manuscript on the flora in the vicinity of Rusava Květena okolí Rusavy , written in 1867, remained unpublished.

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SURNAME Sloboda, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sloboda (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant clergyman and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Skalica
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1888
Place of death Rusava