Eduard Hackel (17 March 1850 in Haida, Bohemia – 2 February 1926 in Attersee, Upper Austria) was an Austrian botanist. His father was a veterinarian in Haida (now

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) in Bohemia. He was married and had one son. Hackel studied at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, and became substitute teacher at a high school in St. Pölten in 1869. He became full professor of natural history there upon obtaining his teaching certificate in 1871 and remained in this position until his retirement in 1900.

Agrostology

He published his first agrostology papers on

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in 1871 and soon became known as a world expert agrostologist on the grass family (

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). While he himself undertook only a single collecting trip – to Spain and Portugal, he was charged with working up collections of grasses mainly from

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and

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. Apart from agrostologisty systematics, Hackel also contributed to the morphology and histology of members of the grass family. The genus ''

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'' (Poaceae) is named for him.

Important works

* ''Monographia festucarum europeaearum'' 1864 * ''Gramineae'' in Martius’s ''Flora Brasiliensis'', 1883, * ''Catalogue raisonné des graminées du Portugal''. 1880.

References

Detailed biography in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie

Correspondence with Dr Júlio Henriques, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

External links

*
Comprehensive bibliography at WorldCat.

19th-century Austrian botanists Botanists from Austria-Hungary Agrostologists 1850 births 1926 deaths Austrian taxonomists Botanists with author abbreviations 20th-century Austrian botanists {{austria-botanist-stub