Botanist / Botanik Alfonz Paulin (1853-1942)

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Language: Bilingual in English and Slovenian

In this monograph, the authors have analysed the work of Slovenian botanist Alfonz Paulin, who made a significant contribution to the development of Slovenian botany at the turn of the last century. He wrote the first original textbook on botany and thus helped develop Slovenian terminology. He was a high school professor and lectured on botany at the then newly founded university. While analysing the flora, he found that the knowledge of plants in Slovenia needed to be supplemented and created his largest and most important scientific contribution: the herbarium collection Flora exsiccata Carniolica, which is the cornerstone for the further development of floristics in Slovenia. In addition, for many years he led its oldest botanical institution – the Botanical Garden, which, with his work, raised it to the European level and established numerous connections with other gardens in Europe.

Contents

Acknowledgements   11
Recenzion 1   13
Recenzion 2   17

- Introduction   23
- Paulin’s biography   29
- Alfonz Paulin’s pedagogic work   45
- Alfonz Paulin and the Ljubljana Botanic Gardens   57
- Collaboration with the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden and Albert Bois de Chesne   101
- Work with school gardens and private gardens   111
- Alfonz Paulin’s herbarium collection   123
- Flora exsiccata Carniolica   125
- Paulin’s collaboration on other desiccated collections   163
- Scientific work   167
- Scientific articles   175
- Expert and popular articles in Slovenian   189
- Manuscript legacy   193
- Collaboration with Slovenian and foreign botanists   203
- Alfonz Paulin as a collector of Slovenian names   215
- Alfonz Paulin’s nature conservation activities   217
- Alfonz Paulin and the Slovene Alpine Club   221
- Taxa associated with the botanical work of Alfonz Paulin   227
- Iris pallida Lam. subsp. cengialti (Ambrosi) Foster (I. cengialti Ambrosi, incl. I. cengialti Ambrosi f. vochinensis Paulin) South-Alpine iris   227
- Centaurea dichroantha A. Kerner (= Centaurea dichroantha A. Kerner var. julica Hayek = Centaurea alpigena Paulin = Centaurea alpigena Paulin f. dichroantha (Paulin) E. Mayer) Bi-coloured knapweed   231
- Taxon named after Alfonz Paulin   237
- Viola tricolor L. subsp. saxatilis (F. W. Schmidt) Arcang. (= V. tricolor L. subsp. subalpina Gaudin = V. alpestris Jord. subsp. paulinii Hayek) Paulin’s pansy   237
- The horned glory of the horned violet from Begunjšcica   239
- Paulin’s companions on botanical trips   249
- Alfonz Paulin’s awards and recognitions   253

Appendices   265
Literature   276
Index Images   300
Index   314

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