Adolf Alois Pascher (31 May 1881 – 7 May 1945) was a Bohemian botanist and phycologist, notable for his descriptions of several new genera of algae, protists, and vascular plants.
Biography
Born in Stožec, Pascher was the son of a teacher, attended the Gymnasium in Krummau and studied natural science at the German University in Prague, from which he received a doctorate in 1905, and graduated in 1909. In 1908, in partnership with Viktor Langhans, he co-founded a Hydrobiological Laboratory in Hirschberg. In 1912 he became an associate professor of Herbalism and Cryptogamic Botany, later being promoted to Full Professor in 1927. In 1933, he became Director of the Botanical Institutes and Botanical Gardens at the German University in Prague. He served as the editor for Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt for the last twenty years of his life.
A German nationalist, he joined the Sudeten German Party in 1938, and following the German Occupation of Czechoslovakia, actively collaborated with the Nazi regime. He committed suicide on 7 May 1945, three days after the end of World War II.
References
- Klee, Ernst (2003). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war wasvor und nach 1945?. p. 450.
- Chytrý, Milan (2017). Flora and Vegetation of the Czech Republic. p. 50.
- Lee, Robert Edward (2008). Phycology. Cambridge University Press. p. 346. ISBN 9780521367448.
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Categories:
- 1881 births
- Charles University alumni
- Academic staff of Charles University
- Botanists from Austria-Hungary
- Czechoslovak botanists
- German nationalists
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- People from Prachatice District
- Phycologists
- Sudeten German people
- Suicides in Czechoslovakia
- 1945 suicides
- 1945 deaths