Andrej Kmeť

Andrej Kmeť (19 November 1841, Bzenica – 16 February 1908, Martin) was a Slovak Catholic priest, botanist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and geologist.

Kmeť was born in the Austrian Empire in Bzenica, today in Slovakia.

After education at the local elementary and grammar schools he studied theology at Esztergom from 1861 and was ordained priest in 1865.

Kmeť issued the exsiccata-like series Flora Schemnitziensis [or] Fungi Schemnitzienses widely distributed among herbaria.

Andrej Kmeť retired in 1906 and lived in Turčiansky until his death and was interred in the National Cemetery in Martin.