Christian Leberecht von Prøck

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Christian Leberecht von Prøck
Birth name	Christian Leberecht von Prøck
Born	Denmark
Died	Copenhagen, Denmark
Allegiance	Denmark-Norway
Years of service	1756–1766
Rank	Governor-General

Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718-1780) was a Danish baron. He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756–1766. In 1768, Pröck became a diocese commander over Iceland and the Faroe Islands. He died on 4 September 1780 in Copenhagen.^[1] The plant genus Prockia is named after him.

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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