Jozef Pantocsek

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Jozef Pantocsek (born October 15, 1846 in Tyrnau , today Slovakia ; † September 4, 1916 in Tavarnok , today Slovakia) was a Slovak, Austro-Hungarian physician , micropalaeontologist and botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Pant. "

Life

Jozef Pantocsek, the son of the pharmacist Jozef Pantocsek (1799–1872), lived in Tyrnau for the first five years until his parents moved to Tavarnok, where his mother bought an estate. He attended middle school in Nitra , Kalksburg in Vienna and Esztergom . He studied medicine in Göttingen from 1869/1870 and in Vienna from 1870 to 1873. His uncle was the Hungarian chemist Leo Valent Pantocsek . He received his doctorate in 1877 as Dr. med. In Tavarnok he worked as a general practitioner. From 1896 to 1914 he worked as chief physician at the royal state hospital in Bratislava . During this time he had the psychiatric and surgical department expanded. An infection pavilion was also built.

From 1866, however, he increasingly dealt with his youth interests, with botany , and made trips to Montenegro and Herzegovina and the Carpathians . Through his collections he published numerous works in the field of systematics and floristry . His research on plants in Montenegro is still of great importance today.

In later years he studied more the fossil and recent diatoms ( diatoms ). His main work were the "Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fossil Bacillaries of Hungary" . Not only have they received positive reviews, but they are still important as a groundbreaking study. Pantocsek was also the first to do microphotography in Hungary . These photos were shown at the Hungarian National Exhibition in 1885 and were awarded the gold medal at the first Hungarian amateur photography exhibition in 1890.

He died of typhus on September 4, 1916 on his estate in Tavarnok. He is also buried in Tavarnok.

Honors

The plant genus Pantocsekia Griseb is named after him . ex Pant. from the family of the bindweed family (Convolvulaceae).

Fonts

  • Adnotationes ad floram et faunam Hercegovinae, Crnagorae et Dalmatiae , in: Verhh. of the Ver. for naturkde. zu Preßburg, NF 2, 1874
  • Series of articles on the knowledge of the fossil bacillaries of Hungary , 3 parts., 1886–1892, 2nd ed. 1903
  • The bacillaries as rock formers and age determiners , in: Verhh. der Ges. dt. Doctors and Natural Scientists, 1894, Part 2
  • Flora comitatus Nitriensis , in: Magyarország vármegyei és városai, 1898
  • A Ferto-tó kovamoszatviránya (Bacillariae lacus Peisonis) , 1912. etc.
  • Numerous treatises in specialist journals, including in Austria. offered. Z., 1868–1883, Természettudományi- és Orvosiegylet Közlemények, 1873–1875
  • Scientific Microscopy Newspapers, 1888.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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SURNAME Pantocsek, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian physician, micropalaeontologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Trnava , Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1916
Place of death Tovarníky , Slovakia