Philipp Maximilian Opiz

Philipp Maximilian Opiz ( born June 5, 1787 Czaslau, † May 20, 1858 in Prague ) was an Austrian kk Forstamtsconcipist and taxonomist who has earned a lot of credit particularly botany Bohemia. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Opiz ".

Life

Bureaucratic career

Since 1805 Opiz Cameralbeamter was in Czaslau. In 1808 he was transferred to Pardubice to Prague and 1814. Since 1831 he was employed as Forstamtsconcipist.

In Prague, Opitz made ​​at Politecnico further in philosophy, mineralogy and agriculture, he also learned French and Latin.

Botanist

At the age of 13, he wrote a " calendarium Florae Caslaviensis " containing location, flowering time and description of the wild to Czaslau and its immediate surroundings plants. 1802-1804 followed by a series of botanical papers in the " Proceedings of the Czech Economic Society " in Prague. By traveling within its narrower fatherland and the Giant Mountains, he learned the flora of Bohemia know thoroughly and delivered from 1809-1812 for the published by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl work: " Tentamen florae Bohemiae " not insignificant material.

In the journal " Hesperus ", in the "economic news ", and later in the " Isis ", " Liebich 's Forstmann " etc. appeared alone in the period from 1811-1813 over 25 short or long essays, while the number of his articles in exceeds the aforementioned journals until his death in 400. Since 1810, he gave in decades out an agricultural herbarium.

In 1819 he founded an international exchange club for dried plants, plant seeds and insects. More than 40 years passed until the end of his life, Opiz carried on the business of this association.

But his name is immortalized not only in numerous plant species, also a genus of the family of grasses, Haenke'schen collection entstammend, gave her Monograph Karl Bořiwog Presl the name Opizia.