Václav Stříbrný

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Václav Stříbrný ( Bulgarian Венцеслав Вацлав Стрибърни ; born April 15, 1853 in Lidice ; † June 8, 1933 in Sofia ) was a Czech botanist and pomologist who worked in Eastern Rumelia from 1882 and in Bulgaria from 1885 .

Life

Stříbrný attended the Pomological Institute in Troja (Prague) from 1880 to 1881 . From Theodor Karl August Freiherr Hruby-Geleny ( Bohdan Karel August Hrubý z Jelení ), who had laid out a decorative castle garden with heated greenhouses for orchids around his seat in Červené Pečky , Stříbrný then got a job as a gardener. In 1882 Stříbrný followed a call from the Governor General of Eastern Rumelia and went as a teacher at the newly built agricultural school in Sadowo, Bulgaria . Since there was a lack of trained pomologists, gardeners and economists in Eastern Rumelia, they were recruited from the Slavic states. In addition to Stříbrný, two other Czechs taught in Sadowo, František Chytil and Ignác Burian. The training at the agricultural school began under the simplest conditions, until 1903 the students had to copy their textbooks themselves. Stříbrný produced 29 textbooks on viticulture, fruit growing, vegetable growing, beekeeping and floriculture for the school. In the field of practical fruit growing, Stříbrný introduced strawberry cultivation in Sadowo between 1883 and 1889 and also had fruit and ornamental trees planted on 400 hectares. In 1920 he retired and moved to Sofia.

In the mid-1880s, Stříbrný married in Lidice . The marriage produced five sons who became botanists, doctors and architects. The eldest son Wenceslas Wazlaw Stribrni ( Bulgarian Венцеслав Вацлав Стрибърни ; Czech V. V. Stříbrný , 1887-1960) studied in Sadowo and then worked for 33 years as a professor at the Pleven Viticulture School .

Act

In Sadowo, Stříbrný earned the reputation of being one of the best experts on Bulgarian flora. In 1893, Stříbrný and Hermenegild Škorpil accompanied Josef Velenovský on his third expedition to record the flora of the Balkans. With the tsars Ferdinand I and Boris III. he undertook several botanical expeditions to the Rhodope Mountains .

During his work in Sadowo, Stříbrný put on a herbarium which, with between 12,000 and 20,000 specimens, was the largest of the Bulgarian flora and exotic domesticated plants in Bulgaria. In retirement he worked from 1920 at the Central Agricultural Research Institute in Sofia on the expansion of the herbarium. The herbarium stored in the Natural History Museum was badly damaged by a bomb hit during the bombing of Sofia during World War II . Remains of the herbarium are in the Plovdiv Museum and Sofia University.

Stříbrný discovered several unknown plant species and published in European herbaric journals. He worked particularly closely with the Prague botanist Velenovský and regularly sent plants to Prague.

Taxa

Several taxa were named after Václav Stříbrný:

Publications

  • Přemysl oráč (mural), approved as a teaching aid for all types of schools in Czechoslovakia
  • Засаждане и отглеждане на овощни дървета в двора , 1919
  • Ръководство по овощарството , 1920
  • Ръководство по пчеларство , 1921
  • Отгледване на ягодите и малините , 1921
  • Ръководство по зеленичарство , 1922
  • Ръководство за отгледването и използуването на най-хубавите градински цветя , 1924
  • Овощарството в Троянско и Тетевенско и мерки за неговото подобрение , 1924
  • Ръководство за уреждане на зеленчукови градини и отгледване на зеленчукови растения , 1926
  • Общо практическо ръководство по градинарство , 1927; Czech edition: Obščo Praktičesko rakovodstvo po ovoščarstvo učebnici za sopalnit. zemed. učilišča i za samoobrazovanie , 2nd edition Sofija 1938

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/cervene-pecky/zamek
personal data
SURNAME Stříbrný, Václav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lidice
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1933
Place of death Sofia