Josef Karl Maly (also Joseph Karl Maly, Joseph Carl Maly)[1][2] (1797–1866) was a physician botanist closely associated with the town of Graz, Austria.[3] He published multiple works on Austrian flora, with a particular focus on medicinal and economic botany.
Life
Josef Karl Maly was a botanist closely associated with the town of Graz, Austria.[3] The son of a market gardener in Prague, he attended a gymnasium (school) where he met Franz Sieber, who taught Maly how to dry and preserve plant material for use in a reference herbarium.[4] He went on to study medicine at the University of Prague and graduated as a doctor on 14 December 1823, with the thesis De analogis Plantarum affinium Viribus.[4][5] During his time in Bohemia, along with Sieber, he also associated with the other major botanists in Prague, including Philipp Maximilian Opiz.[3]
In 1824 he moved to Graz to open a medical practice, but continued to botanise in his spare time.[4] When Lorenz Chrysanth von Vest stepped down as professor of Chemistry and Botany at the Joanneum, he was appointed chair of botany (1830–1832) and held lectures in botany for surgeons.[3][4] Due to hearing loss, he gave up his medical practice and fell on hard times.[3] By 1850 he had made his last botanical expedition, and from 1858 he was confined to a wheelchair or his bed.[3] He continued to write, hoping to produce an expansive work titled the Flora of Imperial Austria (Flora imperii Austriaci), but it was never completed.[3]
Major works
Joseph Karl Maly. 1837. Systematische Beschreibung der gebräuchlichsten in Deutschland wildwachsenden oder Kultivierten Arzneigewächse (etc.) (Graz: Verlag von Eduard Ludewig).
Joseph Carl Maly. 1848. Enumeratio plantarum phanerogamicarum Imperii Austriaci universi. (Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel).
J.C. Maly. 1848. Anleitung zur Bestimmung der Gattungen der in Deutschland wildwachsenden und allgemein kultivirten Pflanzen, nach der sehr leichten und sicheren analytischen Methode. (Vienna: William Braumüller).
Josef Karl Maly. 1860. Flora von Deutschland: nach der analytischen Methode. (Vienna: William Braumüller).
Josef Karl Maly. 1862. Botanik für Damen. Enthaltend die Anfangsgrüde und Systemkunde. (Vienna: Carl Gerold's Sohn).
Josef Karl Maly. 1863. Systematische Beschreibung der in Österreich wildwachsenden und kultivirten Medicinal-Pflanzen. Für Ärzte und Apotheker. (Vienna: William Braumüller).
Josef Karl Maly. 1864. Oekonomisch-technische Pflanzenkunde(Vienna: William Braumüller).
Josef Karl Maly. 1868. Flora von Steiermark. (Vienna: William Braumüller).
^"De analogis Plantarum affinium Viribus". Augenlider, Ammonshörner und Armleuchteralgen: Medizinhistorische Dissertationen von 1700–1850. Historische Dissertations-Bibliothek der Zweigbibliothek für Geschichte der Medizin der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. "Maly, Joseph Carl". Index of Botanists. Harvard University. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^"The Australasian Virtual Herbarium". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH). 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.