Jan Květ

As a scientist, he actively contributed to the professional debate on nature and landscape conservation on a global scale. He also promoted environmental issues in politics in the early 1990s.

Jan Květ (*1933) graduated from the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague, specializing in plant physiology and anatomy. He worked for many years at the Botanical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1962–2002), where he headed the Hydrobotanical Working Group, and at the Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2003–2022).

Together with RNDr. Dagmar Dykyjová, CSc. and Ing. Jan Jeník, CSc., he contributed to the establishment of the Třeboňsko Protected Landscape Area. He was at the forefront of scientific research in the fields of plant production ecology and wetland ecology in Czechoslovakia, and proposed the Czech term "mokřad" as the equivalent of the English term "wetland."