Daniel Bothar, senior
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* Bánya, October 13, 1816 – † Bratislava, January 19, 1896 / natural history teacher, flora researcher ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown, graduating from the Evangelical Lyceum in Selmecbánya in 1835. He studied mathematics, engineering and natural sciences at the Institutum Geometricum in Pest, but he only obtained his engineering degree in 1852. He served as an artillery officer in the Hungarian Army in the 1848/49 Hungarian War of Independence, then fled to Turkey after the surrender in Világos and only returned home in 1851. In 1852–1854, he taught natural history and mathematics at the Selmecbánya Lyceum, and between 1854–1891, until his retirement, he was a teacher at the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava. In addition to his teaching work, he was primarily involved in flora research and compiled collections of pressed plants, minerals and rock specimens for the school's natural history library. He mapped the vascular and colonizing plants of the Black Mountain in the Great Fatra Mountains, mainly mosses, lichens and sedges, in the vicinity of Banská Bystrica. During his time in Bratislava, he botanized in the Lesser Carpathians. ; ; His main works: ; Cserni-kamen viránya, 1865, ; Die Pflanzenwelt bei Korytnica (In: Der Karpathenkurort Korytnica), 1876.