Jan Erazim Vocel (23 August 1802–16 September 1871) was a Czech poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist.

[1] Though as heir to his father's trade, he was to become a baker, his parents, observing his youthful enthusiasm for Gothic history, eventually heeded his academic calling.

Already by that time, he had begun writing fiction, of which efforts only two complete works survive—Krvočíše (Bloodshot), a romance about growing grapes in celebration of Charles IV (King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor), and Harp (1875),[3]: 292  a tragedy.

As an author of numerous articles and scientific papers, he inadvertently introduced what would later become a widely accepted method of chemical analysis to determine the age of bronze objects.

Alongside fellow Kutná Hora natives Karel Havlíček Borovský and Josef Kajetán Tyl, he is regarded as a key figure in the 19th-century Czech national revival.