Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (23 February 1782, Česká Kamenice (German: Böhmisch Kamnitz) – 22 May 1834, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, mineralogist, and physician.

Johann Emanuel Pohl grew up in Politz an der Elbe (Boletice nad Labem−(in Czech) of northwestern Bohemia, in the present day Děčín District of the northern Czech Republic.

While he taught botany at the university he became librarian and curator of the collections of the Princess Kinsky.

After a stint teaching at the university he worked in military hospitals in Náchod and Prague.

In this period he published the Tentamen florae bohemicae of which only the first two volumes were published: Expositio generalis anatomica organi auditus per classes animalium and Systematischer Überblick der Reihenfolge der einfachen Fossilien.