František Antonín Novák

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František Antonín Novák (born October 20, 1892 in Chotěbuz , Teschen district , Austrian Silesia , † December 17, 1964 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak botanist .

Life

Novák moved early from Chotěbuz to Pilsen and later attended high school in Roudnice nad Labem . He studied science and chemistry. In 1918 he became an assistant at the Pharmaceutical and Botanical Institute of Charles University in Prague. In 1919 Novák traveled to Slovakia and studied the occurrence of the carnation family there . In 1921 he completed his habilitation in systematic botany at the University of Economics in Prague , department of crops . From 1923 Novák explored the floristry of the Balkan Peninsula .

From 1934 Novák was a full professor of systematic botany at Charles University in Prague. In 1945 he became dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Charles University and head of a botanical institute.

Novák wrote articles for the botanical section of the monthly magazine “Our Nature”. He edited the botanical part of the collection “A Little Time in Nature” (1941–1948) and was editor of the monthly magazine “Czechoslovakian Botanical Leaves” from 1948. He also carried out botanical excursions in the area around Prague.

His preoccupation with botany resulted in his book The large picture lexicon of plants , which has been translated into numerous languages ​​and has seen many new editions.

In the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Novák has the standard form “Novák” and is listed as the author of 26 plant names: Author entry and list of the described plant names for František Antonín Novák at the IPNI .

Several taxa were named after Novák : Centaurea novakii (Dostál), Dianthus novakii (Soják), Hesperis novakii (Dvorak), Iris aphylla L. subsp. novakii (Soo), Stipa novakii (Martinovský), Tillandsia novakii , Platypalpus novakii and others.

Works (selection)

  • Monografická studie o Dianthus gratianopolitanus Vill (Monograph on the Pentecost ), Prague, 1926.
  • Monografická studie evropských druhů rodu Dianthus ze skupiny Dianthi fimbriati (Sectio Plumaria) , Prague 1927.
  • Systematická botanika (Systematic Botany), 2. svazky, in: Rostlinopis, Prague 1930, 1943.
  • Rostliny, svazek I (Plants, Volume I), Prague 1935, illustrations by Karel Svolinský.
  • Rostliny, svazek II, Horské rostliny (Plants, Volume II, Mountain Plants), Prague 1937.
  • Květena a vegetace hadcových půd ( Flora and Vegetation of the Serpentinite Soils), Brno, Union for Nature and Heritage Protection in the Moravian-Silesian Region, 1937.
  • Rostliny, svazek III (Plants, Volume III), Prague 1940.
  • Horské rostliny (mountain plants), Prague 1942, illustrations by Karel Svolinský, this book was also published in Polish in 1963.
  • Farmaceutická botanika: Systematika a morfologie léčivých rostlin (Pharmaceutical botany: systematics and morphology of medicinal plants), Prague 1950.
  • Vyšší rostliny: tracheophyta (Higher Plants: Tracheophyta ), Prague 1961.
  • Jaromír Klika , Karl Šiman, František Antonín Novák, Bohumil Kafka: Jehličnaté (softwoods), Prague, Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1953.
  • The large picture lexicon of plants , Bertelsmann Verlag, July 1989, ISBN 3-570-01018-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Botanists Retrieved September 22, 2018
  2. ^ FA Novák: The large picture lexicon of plants , Bertelsmann Verlag (July 1989), ISBN 3-570-01018-X , ISBN 978-3-570-01018-1

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personal data
SURNAME Novák, František Antonín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Chotebuz
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1964
Place of death Prague