Jan Svatopluk Presl
Jan Svatopluk Presl | |
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Born | |
Died | 6 April 1849 Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire | (aged 57)
Alma mater | Charles University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Chemistry |
Author abbrev. (botany) | J.Presl |
Signature | |
Jan Svatopluk Presl (4 September 1791 – 6 April 1849) was a Czech natural scientist.
He was the brother of botanist Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852). The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication Preslia (founded in 1914). He is the author of Czech scientific terminology of various branches of science, including the Czech chemical nomenclature. He was the co-author of an important Czech taxonomic work, O Přirozenosti Rostlin.
Selected publications
- Berchtold, Friedrich von; Presl, Jan Svatopluk (1820). O Přirozenosti Rostlin. Prague: Krala Wiljma Endersa.
- Berchtold, Friedrich von; Presl, Jan Svatopluk (1820–1835). O Přirozenosti Rostlin aneb rostlinář. Prague: Jos Krause.
See also
- Carl Borivoj Presl (C.Presl, 1794–1852) — Czech botanist, and younger brother of Jan Presl.
- Category:Taxa named by Jan Svatopluk Presl
- 1791 births
- 1849 deaths
- Scientists from Prague
- People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
- Old Czech Party politicians
- Members of the Imperial Diet (Austria)
- Czech chemists
- Czech botanists
- Terminologists
- 19th-century Austrian botanists
- 19th-century Austrian chemists
- Charles University alumni
- 19th-century Czech people
- 19th-century lexicographers
- Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
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