Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl ( born February 23, 1782 Bohemian- Kamnitz, † May 22, 1834 in Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Pohl ".

Life and work

Pohl came at the age of eight or nine years to his uncle after Pölitz. The uncle woke Pohl's interest in botany and after attending high school in Prague he heard lectures on medicine at Prague University. He eventually began to study medicine, which he completed in 1808. He also dealt with the mineralogy of Bohemia and wrote several articles on this topic. After completing his studies Pohl supplierte the Chair of Johann Christian Mikan (1769-1844), and worked as an assistant doctor in a military hospital. 1817 to 1821 he took part in the Austrian Austrian expedition to Brazil, which was the occasion of the marriage of Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria with the Crown Prince of Brazil, Dom Pedro, carried out. After his return, he took a job as a custodian at the Viennese Court and Natural Resources Cabinet and wrote a two -volume work on the journey in the interior of Brazil, the botanical studies Plantarum Brasilliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae.

Writings

• Adumbrationes plantarum juxta exemplaria naturalia. 1804.
• Tentamen florae Bohemiae. From 1809 to 1814.
• Plantarum Brasilliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae. From 1826 to 1833.
• Travel in the interior of Brazil. From 1832 to 1837.