Adolf Alois Pascher (31 May 1881 – 7 May 1945) was a Bohemian
botanist
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and
phycologist, notable for his descriptions of several new genera of algae, protists, and vascular plants.
Biography
Born in
Stožec, Pascher was the son of a teacher, attended the
Gymnasium in
Krummau and studied natural science at the
German University in Prague, from which he received a doctorate in 1905, and graduated in 1909. In 1908, in partnership with
Viktor Langhans, he co-founded a Hydrobiological Laboratory in
Hirschberg. In 1912 he became an associate professor of
Herbalism
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and
Cryptogamic Botany, later being promoted to Full Professor in 1927. In 1933, he became Director of the Botanical Institutes and Botanical Gardens at the German University in Prague. He served as the editor for ''Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt'' for the last twenty years of his life.
A German nationalist, he joined the
Sudeten German Party
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in 1938, and following the
German Occupation of Czechoslovakia
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, actively collaborated with the Nazi regime. He committed
suicide
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on 7 May 1945, three days after the end of
World War II
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.
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1881 births
Charles University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
Botanists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czechoslovak botanists
German nationalists
Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
People from Prachatice District
Phycologists
Sudeten German people
Suicides in Czechoslovakia
1945 suicides