Josephine Kablick
Portrait by Quido Mánes, 1860
Born
Josephine Ettel Kablick

(1787-03-09)March 9, 1787
Vrchlabí, Czechia
DiedJuly 21, 1863(1863-07-21) (aged 76)
Vrchlabí, Czechia
NationalityCzechoslovakia
Other namesJosefina Kablíková
Occupation(s)Botanist, Paleontologist
SpouseAdalbert Kablik

Josephine Ettel Kablick (9 March 1787 – 21 July 1863) was a pioneering Czech botanist and paleontologist and studied under the best botanists of her time. She collected plant and fossil samples for institutions throughout Europe. Many of the fossils and plants she collected are named in her honor.[1]

Life

Kablick lived in the Czech city of Vrchlabí (then Hohenhelbe). She was extremely strong and healthy and became an enthusiastic collector of specimens in all weather.[2] She collected plant and fossil samples especially from the Sudeten Mountains for schools, museums, learned societies and universities throughout Europe.[3]

Kablick created her own herbarium to hold her collections of plants. She especially liked lichens. She was not discouraged by bad weather and ventured into the field to "traipse through forest and climb high mountains in order to search for new species of plants and fossils."[3]

Filip Maximilian Opiz's Interchangeable Institute for the exchange of herbarium specimens (German Pflanzentausch-Anstalt) lists over 25,000 specimens collected by her.[2][3]

In addition to botany, she also had an avid interest in paleontology and collected fossil animals and plants.[3]

She married Adalbert Kablik in 1806 in Hohenhelbe. He was a pharmacologist and zoologist and very supportive of his wife's occupation for 50 years.[2][3]

Kablik was the only woman to be admitted to the Botanical Society in Vienna.[4]

Her name is sometimes spelled Josefina Kablíková.

The standard author abbreviation Kablík. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
Wikisource has original works on the topic: de:BLKÖ:Kablik, Josephine

References

  1. ^ Kablick, Josephine 4000 Years of Women in Science, University of Alabama, Accessed February 2014
  2. ^ a b c Josephine Ettel Kablick Entry by Catherine H Berndt, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, Page 1407. Routledge, 2000 , ISBN 1135963436
  3. ^ a b c d e Ogilvie, M. B., & Harvey, J. D. (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. p. 674. ISBN 978-0-415-92038-4
  4. ^ Stibral, Karel; Faktorová, Veronika (2021-09-02). "The Giant Mountains – as beautiful as the Alps. The origins of the aesthetic discovery of mountains in the Central European context". Journal of Tourism History. 13 (3): 249–274. doi:10.1080/1755182X.2021.1999510. ISSN 1755-182X.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kablík.

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