František Bubák, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Bubák

Czech lichenologist and mycologist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1866

Place of Birth: Rovensko pod Troskami, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1925

Profession: botanist, mycologist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

František Bubák (22 July 1866, Rovensko pod Troskami – 19 September 1925, Prague) was a Czech mycologist and phytopathologist. From 1902 to 1919, he served as a professor at the provincial academy in Tábor, followed by a professorship in botany and plant pathology at the agricultural university in Brno.
From 1920 to 1925, he was a professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry).He was the author of numerous papers involving fungi native to Bohemia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Galicia, Hungary, Istria, Montenegro, Moravia, Russia and Tyrol.
He also published works on North American fungi.
The mycological genus Bubakia is named in his honor.