Jan Lužný, CSc. (4 February 1926,

Liptovský Mikuláš Liptovský Mikuláš (; until 1952 ''Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš'', ; ) is a town in northern Slovakia, on the Váh River, about from Bratislava. It lies in the Liptov region, in Podtatranská kotlina, Liptov Basin near the Low Tatra and Tat ...

– 29 January 2013,

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) was a

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plant-breeder and expert on

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. Between 1965 and 1992, he gave lectures at the University of Agriculture in Brno. 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 Čechůvky is a small village, one of the administrative parts of Prostějov in the Czech Republic. It has population of 163. History In Čechůvky, there is the Chapel of Saint Ottilia, which was built in 1722. During the Austro-Prussian War i ...

Works

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EUCARPIA Eucarpia or Eukarpia () was a city in Phrygia and a bishopric in the late Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor. Location Eukarpia, mentioned by Strabo (XII, 576) and several other geographers, was situated not far from the sources ...

breeding and propagation of ornamental plants:'' papers submitted at the International Symposium of the University of Agriculture Brno, Faculty of Horticulture Lednice na Moravě, Prague September 16.-18.1986. Brno: University of Agriculture, 1986. 194 pp. * ''Use of epispermoscopic analysis in seed assessment.'' rno 1982.

Honors and awards

* G. J. Mendel honorary medal for merit in the biological sciences (2006)

References

1926 births 2013 deaths Czech agronomists Plant breeding People from Liptovský Mikuláš Academic staff of Mendel University in Brno {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub