> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 481](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355568) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6458-1) LSID 6458-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4292943) QID Q4292943 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mik, Josef (1839-1900), Moravian botanist and dipterologist; studied at the Olmütz gymnasium 1850-1857; at the University of Vienna 1857-1861; high school teacher at Görz 1861-1865 at Linz 1865-1867, at Freistadt 1867-1871; from 1871-1899 professor at the academic gymnasium in Wien and school inspector; Schulrath 1894; Franz Joseph Order 1899. **Abbreviated name**: *Mik* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mik*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(2): 454; Barnhart 2: 488; BM 3: 1310; Bossert p. 266; CSP 4: 384, 8: 402, 10: 808, 12: 508, 17: 238-239; DTS 1: xxi, 191; Futák-Domin p. 395; Klášterský p. 127; PR 6216; Rehder 1: 441; Saccardo 2: 73. - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 84: 208. 1900 (d. 15 (err.) Oct 1900); Bot. Not. 1901: 114 (d.); Entomol. Nachr. 26: 363. 1900 (obit., d. 13 Oct 1900); Leopoldina 36: 180. 1900 (d. 13 Oct 1900); Österr. bot. Z. 50: 419. 1900 (d. 13 Oct 1900); Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 50: 462. 1900 (d. 13 Oct 1900); Mitt. naturw. Ver. Troppau 6: 245-246. 1900 (obit., portr.; from "Insectenbörse" nr. 45); Zool. Anz. 23: 680. 1900 (d.). - Brauer, F., Wiener entom. Zeit. 20: 1-7. 1901 (obit., portr., bibl. additional to Mik 1891). - Carpenter, M. M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 69. 1945 (biogr. refs.). - Gilbert, J., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 257-258. 1977 (biogr. refs). - Mik, J., Wiener entom. Zeit. 1891: 65-96 (bibl.). - Osten Sacken, C. R., Record of my life work in entomology 164-180. 1903 (on Mik's opposition to O. S. system of Diptera). - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 2: 326-327. 1975. - Verrall, G. H., Trans. entom. Soc. London, Proc. 1: xliv-xlv. 1900. - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 69. 1905. #### Note Mik published a *Herbarium für Schüler*, sowie Pflanzen-Etiquetten zur Anlegung von Schüler-Herbarien. Wien (A. Pichler's Witwe und Sohn) 1886 (reissued 1889, 1890); ed. 2 1892 (see e.g. J., Österr. bot. Z. 37: 109. 1887). We failed to locate a copy of Mik, *Beitrag zu einer Phanerogamenflora von Freistadt*, 1871, facsimile ed. 1942 (with notes by J. Rohrhofer; see E. Janchen, Cat. fl. austr. 1: 20. 1956). ### Publications ##### n.6005. Flora der Umgebung von Olmütz **Title** *Flora der Umgebung von Olmütz*. Eine systematische Aufzählung der urn Olmütz wildwachsenden, und im Freien kultivirten phanerogamischen Pflanzen, nebst einem Schlüssel zur Bestimmung der Gattungen in analytischer Anordnung. Von Joseph Mik, Candidat für das Gymnasial-Lehramt zu Wien, mit einem Vorworte von Karl B. Heller \[*fl*. 1860\]. Professor... Theresianischen Akademie zu Wien. Olmütz (Verlag von Eduard Hölzel) 1860. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Olmütz*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun-Dec 1860 (p. \[vi\]: Mai 1860), p. \[i\*-ix\*\], \[i\]-lxiv, \[1\]-148, \[1-8, index\]. *Copy*: B. *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, Bot. Zeit. 19: 91-92. 5 Apr 1891 (rev.).