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Historical floods in Bohemia in the work of Dresden hydrometeorologist Christian Gottlieb Pötzsch. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his decease
Munzar, Jan ; Ondráček, Stanislav
This year, it was 200 years that have passed since the decease of the prominent Saxon hydrometeorologist Ch.G. Pötzsch (1732-1805), author of remarkable compendium “Chronological history of large flood events on the Elbe River in a thousand and more years“. The monograph was published in Dresden in 1784 and later added two annexes (from 1786 and 1800). It is a result of many years of hard work in the collection and study of most varied historical and contemporary sources of information. For the documentation of historical floods in Czech Republic the work by Pötzsch importantly also includes a range of data on the rise and course of concrete hydrometeorological extremes in the Czech segment of the Elbe River catchment and its affluents since the author drew his knowledge not only from historical entries (German, Czech and Latin) but also from available contemporary data originating from Bohemia, forgotten or unextant today.
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