Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (November 29, 1834 – November 24, 1902) was a Czech

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

born in

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. He was the son of writer

František Ladislav Čelakovský František () is a masculine given name of Czechs, Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis (given name), Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz (given name), Franz. People with the name include: *Frank Daniel (František Daniel) (1926–1996), ...

, and father to

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Ladislav František Čelakovský Ladislav František Čelakovský (December 3, 1863 – December 31, 1916) was a Czech mycologist and botanist born in Prague. He was the son of botanist Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (1834–1902). Čelakovský was a professor of plant physiolog ...

(1864-1916). He studied at

Charles University in Prague Charles University ( cs, Univerzita Karlova, UK; la, Universitas Carolina; german: Karls-Universität), also known as Charles University in Prague or historically as the University of Prague ( la, Universitas Pragensis, links=no), is the oldest an ...

, and from 1860 gave lectures at the National Museum in Prague. In 1880 he attained the chair of botany at the university. In 1877 he became a member of the ''Königliche Böhmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften'' (Czech Royal Society of Sciences). Čelakovský conducted extensive research involving classification of plants, particularly studies of regional flora from what is now the

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. He made important contributions on the

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and

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of the reproductive organs of Gymnospermae. He described numerous new botanical species, and has a handful of plants named after him, such as ''Stipa celakovskyi'', ''Lathyrus celakovskyi'' and ''Orchis celakovskyi''. Čelakovský was a supporter of

Darwinism Darwinism is a scientific theory, theory of Biology, biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of smal ...

.Engels, Eve-Marie; Glick, Thomas F. (2008). ''The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe'', Volume 1. Continuum. p. 202.

Selected publications

* ''Analytická květena Čech, Moravy a rakouského Slezska'' (Analysis of flora of

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and Austrian Silesia), Prague 1879, 1897. * ''Prodromus květeny české'' (Prodromus of Czech flora), Prague 1868-1889. * ''Přírodopisný atlas rostlinstva'' (Natural historical atlas of vegetation), Prague 1866, 1873 and 1889. * ''Rozpravy o Darwinově theorii'' (Debates on Darwin's theory), Prague 1894.

Notes

* ''This article is based on a translation of an article from the Czech and German Wikipedia.''

References

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