Karl Anton Eugen Prantl
Karl Anton Eugen Prantl, also known as Carl Anton Eugen Prantl, was a German botanist.
Prantl was born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, and studied in Munich. In 1870 he graduated with the dissertation Das Inulin. Ein Beitrag zur Pflanzenphysiologie. He worked with Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli and Julius Sachs. From 1887 on, he published Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien with fellow botanist Adolf Engler, who completed the work in 1915.
In 1877 he became a professor at the forest educational institution at Aschaffenburg, transferring to Breslau University in 1889, where he also became director of the botanical garden there. Prantl worked particularly on Cryptogams.Works
- Lehrbuch der Botanik, 7 Eds., Leipzig 1887.
- Untersuchungen zur Morphologie der Gefäßkryptogamen, Leipzig 1875 and 1881, 2 fascicles.
- Exkursionsflora für das Königreich Bayern, Stuttgart, 1884.
- Karl Prantl and Adolf Engler : Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 2 Editions, Leipzig.
