Josef holub biography

Biography.
Josef Holub was born in what is now Nyrsko, in the Czech Republic, in 1926.
Writer.

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Holub, Josef 1926-

Personal

Born 1926, in Neuern (now Nýrsko), Bohemia (now Czech Republic); children: three children. Education: Attended teacher's training college.

Addresses

Home—Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Career

Writer. Has worked as an art dealer, mason, smuggler, mail carrier, postal administrator, and village mayor. Military service: Served during World War II.

Awards, Honors

Peter Hartling prize, 1993, for Der rote Nepomuk; Zurich Children's Book Prize, 1996, for Bonifaz und der Räuber Knapp; Mildred L. Batchelder Award, 1998, for The Robber and Me; Best Books for Young Adults selection, American Library Association, and Mildred L. Batchelder Award, both 2006, both for An Innocent Soldier.

Writings

NOVELS

Der rote Nepomuk, Beltz & Gelberg (Weinheim, Germany), 1993.

Bonifaz und der Räuber Knapp, Beltz & Gelberg (Weinheim, Germany), 1996, translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford as The Robber and Me, Holt (New York, NY), 1997.

Lausige Zeiten, Beltz & Gelberg (Weinheim, Germany), 1997.

Juksch Jonas und der S

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Josef Ludwig Holub

El Profesor Josef Ludwig Holub ( nacido el 5 de febrero de 1930, en Mladá Boleslav (República Checa) - fallecido el 23 de julio de 1999, ibíd.) fue un importante botánico, que engrandeció esta ciencia en la República Checa; tanto por las descripciones de nuevas especies como por la reorganización de la sistemática de varios grupos botánicos,ayudando a tener una visión real y certera de la flora checa y europea.

Vida

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Josef Holub estudió en la Karls-Universität de Praga y enseñará allí a partir de 1953 la asignatura de Botánica.
Fue cofundador del "Instituto de Botánica Checo" donde trabajaría durante muchos años . También ayudó a la creación del "Departamento de Biosistemática", y de la revista "Folia", publicada por el "Instituto de Geobotánica y Fitotaxonómia" .
En 1991 es nombrado Presidente de la "Sociedad Botánica Checa", que venía publicando desde 1990 la revista "Preslia".
Realizó numerosas expediciones botánicas en numerosos países del centro de Europa.
Obra
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Trabajó sobre todo en la nomenclatura taxonómica de las p
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Josef Holub (1930 – 1999)

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Josef Holub, one of the greatest figures of 20th century Czech botany, died suddenly of a heart-failure during a botanical excursion on 23 July 1999, not far from the Central-Bohemian town Mladá Boleslav where he was born almost seventy years ago, on 5 February 1930. Although his health deteriorated in later years, it did not deter him from field excursions and work with live plants. He remained an enthusiastic field botanist until the last moments of his life.
Taxonomy and nomenclature of vascular plants were the main research interests of Josef Holub. He was a member of the generation brought up on the principles of the classical morphological-geographical method, a generation which had to come to accept and become familiar with numerous methodical innovations associated with the progress and development of biosystematics. Josef Holub had a phenomenal memory which allowed him to achieve and