Blas Pablo Reko
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Blas Pablo Reko (1877 – February 1953) was an Austrian-born physician and amateur ethnobotanist and anthropologist.[1][2][3] He was Slavic and was born Blasius Paul Reko in Austria, but then spent much of his life in Mexico where he adopted the name Blas Pablo Reko.[2][3][1][4]
Reko worked for a mining company for many years in Oaxaca, Mexico, before he started working in the area of plants in 1917.[2][1] He published a number of scholarly works on plants.[2][1][3] Reko, working with Richard Evans Schultes and others, played a key role in the early description and elucidation of the hallucinogenic Mexican plants and fungi teonanácatl (now Psilocybe mexicana), ololiúqui (now Ipomoea corymbosa), and hoja de adivinación (now Salvia divinorum).[5][3][1][6]
He was controversial in having been an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party.[1][3][4][7] Reko had a cousin named Viktor Aloisius Reko, who also worked in the area of psychoactive drugs, with much of the information he published originally having been derived from Blas Pablo Reko.[1][8]
Selected publications
- Reko, Blas Pablo (December 1919). "De los Nombres Botánicos Aztecas" [On Aztec Botanical Names]. El México Antiguo. 1 (5): 113–157. Archived from the original on 28 July 2010.
- Reko, Blas Pablo (1931). "Das Mexikanische Rauschgift Ololiuqui" [The Mexican Narcotic Ololiuqui]. El México Antiguo. 3 (3/4): 1–7. Archived from the original on 22 May 2008.
- Reko, B. P. (April 1940). "Teonanacatl, the Narcotic Mushroom" (PDF). American Anthropologist. 42 (2): 368–369. doi:10.1525/aa.1940.42.2.02a00310.
- Reko, Blas Pablo (1945). Mitobotánica Zapoteca [Zapotec Mythobotany]. Tacubaya, México: Privately printed.
- Reko, B.P. (15 May 1947). "Nombres botánicos del manuscrito badiano" [Botanical names from the Badian manuscript]. Botanical Sciences (5): 23–43. doi:10.17129/botsci.940. ISSN 2007-4476.