Joseph Karl Maly

Josef Karl Maly (also Joseph Karl Maly, Joseph Carl Maly) (1797–1866) was a medical doctor and botanist closely associated with the town of Graz, Austria. The son of a market gardener in Prague, he attended a gymnasium (school) where he met Franz Sieber, who taught Maly how to dry and preserve plant material for use in a reference herbarium. He went on to study medicine at the University of Prague and graduated as a doctor on 14 December 1823, with the thesis De analogis Plantarum affinium Viribus. During his time in Bohemia, along with Sieber, he also associated with the other major botanists in Prague, including Philipp Maximilian Opiz. Plant specimens that Maly collected are now held by herbaria worldwide. His type specimens and personal herbarium are at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, with duplicate material at Lund University herbarium, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, University of Naples Federico II herbarium, National Museum (Prague), Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the National Herbarium of Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

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