Eduard Ludvik Pospichal was an Austrian

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Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....

 botanist of Czech parentage who was born in Litomyšl

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Litomyšl is a town and municipality in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. The chateau complex in the town centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.-History:...

 in Bohemia

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 (today in the Czech Republic

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Pospichal was a teacher at a secondary school

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 in Trieste

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. He was the author of Flora des Oesterreichischen Küstenlandes (1897–99), a comprehensive treatise on flora found in regions on and around the northeast Adriatic coast. He was also the author of Flora des Flussgebietes der Cidlina und Mrdlina (1881), which was a study of plants found along the banks of the Cidlina und Mrdlina Rivers in Bohemia

Bohemia

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

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