Philipp Maximilian Opiz
Czech-German forester and botanist
Died when: 70 years 349 days (851 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Philipp (Filip) Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Cáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist.Beginning in 1805 he served as a cameral-beamter in his hometown of Cáslav, later working in Pardubice (from 1808) and Prague (from 1814).
In 1831 he became a Forstamtsconcipist (forestry official).He was the taxonomic authority of numerous plant species, and the creator of many sets of exsiccatae.
In 1830 Carl Borivoj Presl named the genus Opizia in his honor.
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