Zdeněk Černohorský (27 December 1910 – 5 September 2001) was a Czech lichenologist and educator.

Life and career

Zdeněk Černohorský was born in a poor family of a village baker in the village

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). Černohorský attended

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in Prague. He graduated in 1933 with a degree in natural sciences with a specialisation in lichenology. Following university he taught in several schools–first, a primary school in

, and later,

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s in Český Krumlov, Mělník and Prague. In 1938 he lost a lot of his property following involuntary resettlement resulting from the Munich Agreement. After WWII, Černohorský was able to start his professional career at the University of Agriculture and Forestry (now the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague). In 1949 he received his

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, and that same year was appointed professor at the Faculty of Education at Charles University. In 1959, he was transferred to the Faculty of Sciences at the same institution, where he stayed until his retirement in 1977. He was dean of the university from 1961 to 1963. Černohorský contributions to lichenology include co-authoring new Czechoslovak species, introducing fluorescence analysis into lichen identification, and a series of taxonomical and chorological studies on the genus '' Rhizocarpon''. He was also interested in the anatomy and morphology of seed plants. Černohorský wrote a

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on seeds of the plant family Cruciferae, and a textbook on plant morphology that was published in eight editions. Černohorský enjoyed teaching, and frequently published articles in ''

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magazine. Černohorský was the chairman of the

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for twelve years, and an honorary member of that society since 1976. He was the chief

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of its periodical ''

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'' for 27 years. Because of his contributions to Slovak botany and lichenology, he became an honorary member of the Slovak Botanical Society (SBS) in 1979, and in 1996 he was awarded the SBS Commemorative Medal.

Eponyms

Several taxa have been named to honour Černohorský. These include the lichen species '' Russula cernohorskyi'' ; '' Thyrea cernohorskyi'' ; '' Physcia cernohorskyi'' ; '' Verrucaria cernohorskyi'' ; '' Polyblastia cernohorskyana'' ; ''

Gyalecta cernohorskyi ''Gyalecta'' is a genus of fungi in the family Gyalectaceae that contains 50 species. ''Gyalecta'' was circumscribed by lichenologist Erik Acharius in 1808. Selected species *''Gyalecta ancistrospora'' *''Gyalecta arbuti'' *''Gyalecta azore ...

'' ; '' Lecanora cernohorskyana'' ; and the variety '' Verrucaria timkoii'' var. ''cernohorskyi'' .

Selected works

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References

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