Karel Domin

Karel Domin ( born May 4, 1882 in Kutna Hora, † June 10, 1953 in Prague) was a Czech botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Domin ".

Life

From 1909 to 1910 he undertook with his friend Jiří Daneš Viktor and his wife an expedition to Java and Australia where she gained over 4000 species. Subsequently, he published some basic and important works on the taxonomy and phytogeography of Australia, but also worked on the flora of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Insignia dispute

Dominguez was rector of the Czech Charles University in Prague in the academic year 1933/34. In this the insignia dispute flared up again after August Naegle, the "iron " Rector of the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, had passed away. Rector Dominguez mobilized by his speech an attack on the German university building on 24 November 1934 in which several students were injured. The German Rector, Professor Grosser, decided next day to surrender the insignia, and guided them on the same day at the Czech university on. This was " the new University Act helped a lot, (...) peaceful coexistence of nations in the new state " to make it impossible Grosser wrote later.

Works

• Plantarum Čechoslovakiae enumeratio species vasulares .... In 1936.
• Contributions to the flora and plant geography of Australia. In: Bibliotheca botanica. 85 ( 1914-1915 ) and 89 ( 1921-1929 ).
• Together with J. Futak: Bibliografia k Flore Czechoslovakia. 1960 ( posthumously ).

Swell

• Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.