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Benedikt Roezl

Traveler and gardener
Benedikt Roezl was a traveller, gardener and botanist. Probably the most famous collector of orchids of his time. Despite the loss of a hand, Roezl travelled the world and discovered more than 800 species of orchid, with more than forty named in... Wikipedia
Born: August 13, 1824, Horoměřice, Czechia
Died: October 14, 1885 (age 61 years), Prague, Czechia