BIOLOGIST

Jan Svatopluk Presl

1791 - 1849

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Svatopluk Presl is the 489th most popular biologist (down from 146th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 135th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 489 out of 1,097. Before him are Ivan Regen, Benedykt Dybowski, Lorenz Heister, Carl Chun, Johannes Thiele, and Wilder Penfield. After him are Zhores Medvedev, David Starr Jordan, Vladimir Demikhov, Giuseppe Acerbi, Gabriel Bibron, and Emil Christian Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 30. Before him are Ferdinand Hérold, William Elford Leach, Henryk Dembiński, Sergey Aksakov, Anne Lister, and Friedrich von Gärtner. After him are Jan Václav Voříšek, Theodor Körner, Louis Visconti, Václav Hanka, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, and Odilon Barrot. Among people deceased in 1849, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 40. Before him are Delphine LaLaurie, Angelica Catalani, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Andrés Manuel del Río, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, and Dolley Madison. After him are Pierre François Verhulst, William Etty, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, Goffredo Mameli, Maria Edgeworth, and Marc Isambard Brunel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 375 out of 1,200. Before him are Christian Mayer (1719), Zdeněk Fierlinger (1891), Gabriel von Max (1840), Ivan Mládek (1942), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Antonín Vranický (1761). After him are Rudolf Beran (1887), Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Franz Konwitschny (1901), Franz Krommer (1759), and Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 7. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), and Rudolf Weigl (1883). After him are Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), August von Pelzeln (1825), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), Friedrich Reinitzer (1857), and Josephine Kablick (1787).

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