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Josef Prokop Pražák
Bohemian ornithologist
Josef Prokop Pražák (22 June 1870 – 15 July 1904) was a Bohemian ornithologist. Because of problems in his research including publication of false information and the submission of stolen specimens with fake data, much of his work remains under a cloud of uncertainty.
ed to Edinburgh again, he was declared a Doctor of Natural Sciences there. After this, he engaged in further scientific activity in the natural science institutes of this university and achieved a distinguished name there, and was offered a professorship in the college of Calcutta, India. But military duty prevented him from this mission, as a reserve officer he had to return home and therefore declined the position. He then settled in Prague, where he took the post of prefect at Straka's Noble Academy and taught French and English there. At the same time, however, he continued to study privately and prepared for publication a comprehensive English book on ungulates. In order to have more time for this work, he left his posi