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Last Name Bojer

Given Name Wenceslas

alt. Names W. B. ; Vaclav / Wenzel / botanical shortname: Bojer ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1795 in Řesanice, Bohemia

Year died 1856

Place of death Port Louis, Mauritius

Father's occupation gardener Simon Bojer (1765 c. -1795 after)

Relatives Barbara Staub (1765 c. -1795 after) (mother)

Education taught by botanist and politician Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg (= Caspar / Kašpar Maria Šternberk) (1761-1838)

Country of Activity Austria

Worked for

Patronage Robert Townsend Farquhar ;

Collaborators prince Rafaria and James Hastie on their expedition in Madasgascar ; Charles Edward Telfair (1777 / 1778-1838) ; Jacques Delisse (1773-1856) ; Julien François Desjardins (1799-1830) ;

Techniques natural history and botanical drawing ;

Sample(s) http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=370&mobile=0 ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslas_Bojer ;

Archival sources http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1825&-max=25 ; http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000000841 ;

Published sources Constantin von Wurzbach: Bojer, Wenzeslaus, in: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 2. Theil. Verlag der typografisch-literarisch-artistischen Anstalt (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Wien 1857: 27 f. ; ADB 3 1876: 86 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Mauritius and Madagascar.

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