Genus Rochelia
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For Anton Rochel (1770–1847), Austrian surgeon and botanist. He studied medicine at the Medical Faculty in Vienna and qualified as a surgeon in 1792. He served as surgical assistant in the Austrian army from 1788–1798. For the next 22 years, he worked in Moravia in various capacities such as being personal physician for Baron Alojza Mednyánsky and Count Aspremonta, where he became not only interested but an expert in the flowers in what is now Slovakia. He also had an interest in entomology. From 1821 to 1840, he was curator of the University Botanical Gardens in Budapest, which he improved substantially. Rochel authored Flora of Banat (1828), an eastern province of (old) Hungary, now part of Romania, and Naturhistorische Miscellen über den Nordwestlichen Karpath in Ober-Ungarn (1821) (loosely translated as ‘A Natural Histor Journey into the Nothwestern Parts of Hungary’). He was made a member of the Botanical Societies of Regensburg and Marktbreit in Germany.