Benedikt Roezl
Austrian botanist
Died when: 62 years 62 days (746 months)Star Sign: Leo
Benedikt Roezl (13 August 1824, Horomeritz (Bohemia, Austrian Empire) – 14 October 1885, Prague) was a traveller, gardener and botanist (sometimes Benedict or Benito Roezl as called by the Indians).
Probably the most famous collector of orchids of his time.Despite the loss of a hand (in an accident in Cuba), Roezl travelled the world and discovered more than 800 species of orchid, with more than forty named in his honour.
Roezl was also the founder of the Czech botanical magazine, Flora, in 1880.There is a statue (depicting him holding an orchid with a Native American kneeling beside him) of Roezl in Prague, located on the southern end of Charles Square.
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