Karel Domin (4 May 1882,

Kutná Hora Kutná Hora (; medieval Czech: ''Hory Kutné''; german: Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. The centre of Kutná Hora, including the Sedlec Abbey and its ossuary, was designa ...

, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and politician. After gymnasium school studies in

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, he studied botany at the

Charles University in Prague ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , undergr ...

, and graduated in 1906. Between 1911 and 1913 he published several important articles on Australian taxonomy. In 1916 he was named as professor of botany. Domin specialised in

phytogeography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...

, geobotany and

plant taxonomy Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants. It is one of the main branches of taxonomy (the science that finds, describes, classifies, and names living things). Plant taxonomy is closely alli ...

. He became a member at the

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Czech: ''Československá akademie věd'', Slovak: ''Česko-slovenská akadémia vied'') was established in 1953 to be the scientific center for Czechoslovakia. It was succeeded by the Czech Academy of Scienc ...

, published many scientific works and founded a botany institute at the university. The Domin scale, a commonly used means of classifying a standard area by the number of plant species found in that area, is named after him. In the academic year 1933-34 he was

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of Charles University and was one of the participants of a struggle for ancient academic insignia between the Czech and German universities of Prague (the ''insigniáda'') that resulted in street-fights and looting. From 1935 to 1939 he was a member of parliament; after the

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany ...

, he co-founded a traditionalist political movement (''Akce národní obrody''). He is considered the man who is the most responsible the creation of Tatra National Park.Karel Domin (1882 - 1953) Propagátor zákonné ochrany Tater, tj. národního parku
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Domin, Karel 1882 births 1953 deaths People from Kutná Hora People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czechoslovak National Democracy politicians Party of National Unity (Czechoslovakia) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939) Czech botanists Czech politicians Czechoslovak fascists Charles University faculty Charles University alumni Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery