August von Hayek was an Austrian

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 botanist who was a native of Vienna

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. He was born as a son of Gustav von Hayek, and August was the father of economist

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 Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992).

From 1926 Hayek was a professor at the University of Vienna

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. He is remembered for phytogeographical

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 studies of Styria and the Balkans

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. Among his better known publications are the following:

• Prodromus Florae Peninulae Balkanicae, (Preliminary Publication of Balkan Peninsula Flora)
• Flora der Steiermark, (Flora of Styria)
• Schedae ad Florum stiriacum exsiccatum, 1904-1912
• Die Pflanzendecke Österreich-Ungarns, Volume 1, 1916
• Allgemeine Pflanzengeographie, (General Phytogeography), 1926