Christian Leberecht von Prøck

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Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718–1780) was a Danish baron.

He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756 to 1766. In 1768, Pröck became a diocese commander over Iceland and the Faroe Islands. He died on 4 September 1780 in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/dbl/13/0304.html

|title=Prøck, Christian Lebrecht Baron, 1718-80 |publisher= Dansk biografisk Lexikon |author= Carl Frederik Bricka |access-date=January 1, 2019}} The plant genus Prockia is named after him.

Botany

In 1759, Patrick Browne ex Carl Linnaeus published Prockia, a genus of flowering plants from Central America, and South America, in the willow family, Salicaceae.{{cite web |title=Prockia P.Browne ex L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30024531-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 November 2021 |language=en}} Then in 1886, botanist Baill. published Prockiopsis, a genus of flowering plants from Madagascar, belonging to the family Achariaceae and both genera were named in Christian Leberecht von Prøck's honour.{{cite web |title=Prockiopsis Baill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4383-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=28 May 2021 |language=en}}

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