Edvín Bayer

Edvín Bayer (anglicized as Edwin Bayer; 17 February 1862 – 17 March 1927) was a Czech botanist. He worked at the National Museum in Prague as curator and later the head of the department of botany. He specialised in lichens and paleobotany (the study of plant fossils).

Biography Bayer was born in Chotěboř, where his father was a notary. His brother Karel Bayer (1854–1930) became a prominent professor of surgery. He went to the local school before going in 1874 to the Prague gymnasium. In 1882 he joined the German University in Prague to study law but moved to the Czech University in Prague two years later to graduate in the natural sciences in 1888.