Eduard Hackel (17 March 1850, Haida, Bohemia – 2 February 1926, Attersee, Upper Austria) was an Austrian botanist. His father was a veterinarian in Haida (now Nový Bor) in Bohemia. He was married and had one son. Hackel studied at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, and became substitute teacher at a high school in

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in 1869. He became full professor of natural history there upon obtaining his teaching certificate in 1871 and remained in this position until his retirement in 1900.

Agrostology

He published his first

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in 1871 and soon became known as a world expert agrostologist on the grass family (

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). While he himself undertook only a single collecting trip – to Spain and Portugal, he was charged with working up collections of grasses mainly from

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. Apart from agrostologisty systematics, Hackel also contributed to the morphology and histology of members of the grass family. The genus ''

Hackelochloa ''Hackelochloa'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891. Species *'' Hackelochloa granularis'' ( L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; ...

'' (Poaceae) is named for him.

Important works

* ''Monographia festucarum europeaearum'' 1864 * ''Gramineae'' in Martius’s ''Flora Brasiliensis'', 1883, * ''Catalogue raisonné des graminées du Portugal''. 1880.

References

Detailed biography in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie

Correspondence with Dr Júlio Henriques, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

External links

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Comprehensive bibliography at WorldCat.

19th-century Austrian botanists Agrostologists 1850 births 1926 deaths Austrian taxonomists Botanists with author abbreviations 20th-century Austrian botanists {{austria-botanist-stub