Wenzel Benno Seidl (sometimes spelt as Seidel; 14 September 1773 – 7 February 1842) was a Bohemian-Austrian botanist and entomologist. He examined the flora of Bohemia and also collected insect specimens from the region. The sedge genus ''Seidlia'' was named in his honour in 1826 by

Philipp Maximilian Opiz Philipp (Filip) Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Čáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist. He made contributions to European botany during the early 19th century. Showing an early interest in botany from child ...

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Biography

Seidl was born in Schüttenhofen and studied agriculture. He attended the lectures of Franz Willibald Schmidt in

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and became interested in botany and began to examine the plants of the region. He became an accounts officer in the Imperial and Royal Provincial Accounting Office in Prague around 1809. He contributed to the ''Tentamen florae Bohemicae'' by

Johann Ehrenfried Pohl Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (12 September 1746, Leipzig – 25 October 1800, Dresden) was a German physician and botanist. He was the son of physician Johann Christoph Pohl (1706–1780). From 1763 to 1769, he studied medicine at the University of Leip ...

. He wrote a manuscript on the wild plants of Bohemia titled ''Icones plantarum selectarum in Bohemia sponte nascentium'' with illustrations and hoped to produce a flora of Bohemia. It however remained unfinished. He also contributed to another work on the flora of Bohemia in 1836 with Friedrich von Berchtold, Franz Wilhelm Sieber, Philipp Maximilian Opiz, and Wilhelm Rudolf Weitenweber. He contributed to a work on roses by Tobias Seitz in 1825 and influenced the botanist brothers

Jan Svatopluk Presl Jan Svatopluk Presl (4 September 1791 – 6 April 1849) was a Czech natural scientist. He was the brother of botanist Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852). The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication ...

and

Carl Borivoj Presl Carl Borivoj Presl (; 17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a Czech botanist. Biography Presl lived his entire life in Prague, and was a professor of botany at the University of Prague (1833–52).1773 births 1842 deaths People from Sušice Austrian botanists