Theodor Kotschy

Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy Polish: Teodor Koczy (15 April 1813 – 11 June 1866) was an Austrian botanist and explorer.

[4] The collections from 1839 to 1841 were partly distributed by the German scientific society Unio Itineraria as exsiccata-like series under the title Kotschyi Iter Nubicum.

[5] On August 1, 1843, probably as the first European, he conquered the highest peak in today's Iran - Mount Damavand (5,609 m above sea level) in the Alborz.

[6] Between 1843 and 1846 Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker edited and sold three exsiccata series with plant specimens from Iran, Iraq and Syria collected by Kotschy.

[7] Starting with 1853 Kotschy curated and distributed exsiccatae himself, among others one under the title Iter Cilicico-Kurdicum 1859 and one entitled Plantae Syriae borealis 1862.