Jan Svatopluk Presl

1791 - 1849

country of citizenship: Austrian Empire

native language: Czech

languages spoken, written or signed: Czech

occupation: chemist, lexicographer, zoologist, pedagogue, botanist, university teacher, politician, mineralogist, teacher, translator

position held: Member of the Austrian Reichstag

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)