Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
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- May 22, 1834, Vienna) was an Austria
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n botanist, entomologist, geologist
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, and physician
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.
Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808.
After a stint teaching at the University he worked in military hospitals in Náchod
Náchod
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and Prague. While he taught botany at the university he became librarian and curator of the collections of the Princess Kinsky
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. In this period he published the Tentamen florae bohemicae of which only the two first volumes got published; Expositio generalis anatomica organi auditus per classes animalium, and Systematischer Überblick der Reihenfolge der einfachen Fossilien.
He made his name in several branches of natural history. In 1817, he accompanied the Archduchess Leopoldine
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
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to Brazil
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on the occasion of her marriage to Dom Pedro I, and then was chosen by his government to participate in the Austrian Brazil Expedition
Austrian Brazil Expedition
The Austrian Expedition to Brazil was a great expedition of scientific inquiry which explored Brazil, with prominence in the areas of Botany, Zoology and Ethnography...
in charge of mineralogy and geology. After the return of Dr. Mikan
Johann Christian Mikan
Johann Christian Mikan, was an Austrian-Czech botanist, zoologist and entomologist. He was the son of Joseph Gottfried Mikan....
to Europe, he was responsible for the botany collections as well.
Pohl spent four years between 1817 and 1821 in Brazil, during which he explored mainly the provinces of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
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, Goias
Goiás
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, Bahia
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as well as the province of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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as far as the District of Itha Grande.
His voluminous collections, among them some 4000 specimens of plants, were housed with the rest of the expedition collections in the Brazil Museum of Vienna, which included also two live specimens, a pair of Botocudo
Botocudo
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tribespeople. The woman died soon after and the man was eventually returned to his native land.
After his return Pohl served as a curator at the Vienna Natural History Museum
Naturhistorisches Museum
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and the Vienna Brazilian Museum until his death.