Josephine Kablick

Josephine Ettel Kablick (March 9, 1787 – July 21, 1863) was a pioneering Czech botanist and paleontologist. Kablick studied under the best botanists of her time. She collected plant and fossil samples for institutions throughout Europe. Many of the fossils and plants she collected are named in her honor.[1]

Josephine Kablick
Born	Josephine Ettel Kablick March 9, 1787
Died	July 21, 1863 (aged 76)
Nationality	Czechoslovakia
Other names	Josefina Kablíková
Occupation	botanist, paleontologist
Spouse(s)	Adalbert Kablik

Life

Kablick lived in the Czech city of Vrchlabí (then Hohenelbe ). She was extremely strong and healthy and became an enthusiastic collector of specimens in all weathers.[2] She collected plant and fossil samples especially from the Sudeten Mountains for schools, museums, learned societies and universities throughout Europe.

Filip Maximilian Opiz's Interchangeable Institute for the exchange of herbarium specimens (German Pflanzentausch-Anstalt) lists over 25,000 specimens collected by her.[2]

Her husband Adalbert Kablik was a pharmacologist and zoologist and very supportive of his wife's occupation.[2] Her name is sometimes spelled Josefina Kablíková

References

1. Kablick, Josephine 4000 Years of Women in Science, University of Alabama, Accessed February 2014
2. Josephine Ettel Kablick Entry by Catherine H Berndt, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, Page 1407. Routledge, 2000 , ISBN 1135963436
3. IPNI.  Kablík.

Sources

• The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science By Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. Published Taylor & Francis (2000). ISBN 0-415-92039-6. Accessed April 2008
• The Hidden Giants By Sethanne Howard, Published 2007, Lulu.com. ISBN 1-4303-0076-0. Accessed April 2008
• Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich German wikisource. Accessed February 2014.