Wenzel Benno Seidl

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Wenzel Benno Seidl (born September 14, 1773 in Schüttenhofen , † February 7, 1842 in Prague ) was a Bohemian-Austrian botanist and entomologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Seidl ".

Live and act

Seidl initially dealt with higher agriculture, but under the influence of Franz Willibald Schmidt , whose lectures he attended in Prague, he turned to botany and undertook botanical excursions in the area around Prague and the Bohemian Forest . His main occupation was a civil servant in the kuk provincial accounting in Prague, most recently as an accounting officer and possibly employed as early as 1809. Most recently he lived in Schüttenhofen.

In 1807/08 he was involved in the Tentamen florae Bohemicae (attempt of a flora of Bohemia) by Johann Ehrenfried Pohl and wrote a color-illustrated manuscript on the wild plants of Bohemia (Icones plantarum selectarum in Bohemia sponte nascentium), which he gave to the University Library in Prague. He planned to publish a flora of Bohemia, but his penchant for accuracy and obstinacy prevented it from being printed, although the book was already well advanced in 1818, especially when it came to the treatment of grasses. In 1836, however, he published a volume in the collective work on the flora of Bohemia by Friedrich von Berchtold , Franz Wilhelm Sieber , Philipp Maximilian Opiz and Wilhelm Rudolf Weitenweber and other Bohemian botanists. The entire work was in three volumes and remained unfinished.

He also made a contribution to The Roses According to Their Fruits (1825) by the pastor (most recently in Oberhofen am Irrsee ) and botanist Tobias Seits and taught the botanists Jan Svatopluk Presl and Karl Bořiwog Presl in the collection and preparation of plants. As an entomologist he dealt among other things with the bumblebee species in Bohemia and published about them. He was a bug and butterfly collector.

Some initial descriptions come from him.

He was a member of the Royal Bavarian Botanical Society in Regensburg and the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz .

Honors

The genus of Seidlia Opiz 1826 from the sourgrass family (Cyperaceae) is named in his honor.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Economic-technical flora of Bohemia processed according to a more extensive plan: or: Systematic description of the wild and cultivated plants in Bohemia, with precise details of their usefulness and harmfulness in general and in particular , 3 volumes, Prague 1836 to 1841
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Seits, Tobias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 34 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ 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 Seidl, Wenzel Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidl (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian botanist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Schüttenhofen
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1842
Place of death Prague