Question: Facts: - fields: botany , pteridology , taxonomy conservation - death date: 11 may 1999 - author abbrev bot: dostal - birth date: 20 december 1903 - nationality: czech - death place: prague - birth place: prague Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of josef dostal -lrb- botanist -rrb- .
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josef dostal -lrb- 20 december 1903 -- 11 may 1999 -rrb- was a czech botanist , pteridologist , conservationist , climber , hiker and university teacher .he was professor of botany at the charles university in prague .he was the founder of the modern czech scientific taxonomy of higher plants , working mainly with morphology of higher plants found in czechoslovakia .