Jan Lužný,
CSc. (4 February 1926,
Liptovský Mikuláš
Liptovský Mikuláš (; until 1952 ''Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš'', german: Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus; hu, Liptószentmiklós) is a town in northern Slovakia, on the Váh River, about from Bratislava. It lies in the Liptov region, in Liptov Bas ...
– 29 January 2013,
Olomouc
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Czech
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plant-breeder and expert on
gardening
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. Between 1965 - 1992 he gave lectures at the University of Agriculture in Brno (current name:
Mendel University Brno
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). He wrote more than 70 papers about plant-breeding. After his retirement, he became an amateur historian and published many articles about local history of
Čechůvky
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History
In Čechůvky, there is the Chapel of Saint Ottilia, which was built in 1722. During the Austro-Prussian War i ...
.
Works
* ''
EUCARPIA
The European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Europäische Gesellschaft für Züchtungsforschung, Association Européenne pour l'Amélioration des Plantes, Asociación Europea para el Mejoramiento de las Plantas, (in short EUCARPIA) is ...
breeding and propagation of ornamental plants:'' papers submitted at the International Symposium of the University of Agriculture Brno, Faculty of Horticulture Lednice na MoravÄ›, Prague September 16.-18.1986. Brno: University of Agriculture, 1986. 194 s.
* ''Use of epispermoscopic analysis in seed assessment.''
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1982.
Honors and awards
* G. J. Mendel honorary medal for merit in the biological sciences (2006)
References
Czech agronomists
Plant breeding
People from Liptovský Mikuláš
1926 births
2013 deaths
Academic staff of Mendel University Brno
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