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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Svatopluk Presl has received more than 47,775 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jan Svatopluk Presl is the 146th most popular biologist (up from 444th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 408th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 146 out of 1,097. Before him are Hamilton O. Smith, Mario Capecchi, William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, and Emmanuelle Charpentier. After him are Walther Flemming, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Julius Richard Petri, and Adolf Engler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 15. Before him are Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, Johann Franz Encke, Franz Grillparzer, and Eugène Scribe. After him are István Széchenyi, Minh Mạng, Félix Savart, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Friedrich Parrot, and Anne Lister. Among people deceased in 1849, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 19. Before him are Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Juliette Récamier, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Otto Nicolai, and Anita Garibaldi. After him are Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Juliusz Słowacki, William Miller, Lajos Batthyány, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 135 out of 1,200. Before him are Rudolf Slánský (1901), Antonín Zápotocký (1884), Barbara Bouchet (1943), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), Jan Kubiš (1913), and Bretislav I (1005). After him are Johann Palisa (1848), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901), Alfred Brendel (1931), Leo Perutz (1882), and Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Jan Svatopluk Presl ranks 3. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), and Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787). After him are Rudolf Weigl (1883), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), August von Pelzeln (1825), Josephine Kablick (1787), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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