Jean-Louis Kralik

Jean-Louis Kralik (1813, Strasbourg – 1892, Tresserve) was a French botanist.

[1] He worked as a professor in Strasbourg, and for a period of time was curator of Philip Barker Webb's herbarium.

As a botanical collector, he conducted extensive investigation of North African flora on expeditions to Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.

[2] Kralik distributed herbarium specimens in three exsiccatae, namely Algae Schousboeanae, Plantes Corses 1849 and Reliquiae Mailleanae.

[3] The genus Kralikia (synonym Tripogon) was named in his honor by Cosson and Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve.