Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati

Friedrich August (Anton) Rudolph Kolenati (12 September 1812 – 17 July 1864) was a botanist and zoologist active primarily in Prague and Brno in the Austrian Empire.

Kolenati was born in Prague where he completed elementary school and high school, then after graduation from the Medical Faculty of Charles University in 1836 as a student of the natural sciences, especially botany and entomology, he continued as an assistant in botany.

From 1842 to 1845 he participated in explorations of the Caucasus, ranging from the Azov Sea to Nagorno-Karabakh, and later conducted a survey of the lower Don River.

After his release from prison, he gave lectures in mineralogy and zoology at the Prague Polytechnic Institute and worked as a professor of natural history at the Lesser gymnasium.

[1] Kolenati was a member of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences, published more than 50 entomological works, and was also considered an expert on bats.