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Dr. Antal Waisbecker was born 180 years ago
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2015-07-01
https://doi.org/10.17542/kit.20.179
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Balogh, L., & Keszei, B. (2015). Dr. Antal Waisbecker was born 180 years ago. Kitaibelia, 20(2), 179–192. https://doi.org/10.17542/kit.20.179
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Dr. Antal Waisbecker (1835–1916) was a Hungarian physician and the most prominent botanist of Vas county (West Hungary) at the turn of the 19–20th century. He contributed with important floristic data for the botanical monography of Vas county, authored by Vince Borbás. He processed the pteridophytes of Vas county and cormophytes in the surroundings of Kőszeg. Antal Waisbecker was an expert in the knowledge of sedges too. He discovered and described the Carex fritschii. Remarkable amount of herbarium specimens collected by Waisbecker are deposited at the Savaria Museum (Szombathely, SAMU) and Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, BP).