Jan Svatopluk Presl
Appearance
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 |
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Jan Svatopluk Presl(4 September 1791 – 6 April 1849) was aCzechnatural scientist.
He was the brother of botanistCarl Borivoj Presl(1794–1852). The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publicationPreslia(founded in 1914). He is the author of Czech scientific terminology of various branches of science, including theCzech chemical nomenclature.He was the co-author of an important Czech taxonomic work,O Přirozenosti Rostlin.The brothers co-edited theexsiccataseriesVegetabilia cryptogamica Boëmiae collecta a Joanne et Carolo Presl.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Carl Borivoj Presl(C.Presl, 1794–1852) — Czech botanist, and younger brother of Jan Presl.
- Category:Taxa named by Jan Svatopluk Presl
References
[edit]- ^"Vegetabilia cryptogamica Boëmiae collecta a Joanne et Carolo Presl: IndExs ExsiccataID=144466304".IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae.Botanische Staatssammlung München.Retrieved14 April2024.
- ^International Plant Names Index.J.Presl.
External links
[edit]- (in Czech)—Quido.cz: "Biography of Jan Svatopluk Presl"
Categories:
- 1791 births
- 1849 deaths
- Scientists from Prague
- Old Czech Party politicians
- Members of the Imperial Diet (Austria)
- Czech chemists
- 19th-century Czech botanists
- Terminologists
- Botanists from the Austrian Empire
- 19th-century Austrian chemists
- Charles University alumni
- 19th-century lexicographers
- Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
- Scientists from the Austrian Empire
- Czech people from the Austrian Empire
- European botanist stubs
- Czech scientist stubs