Vojtěch Šafařík

Vojtěch Šafařík (26 October 1829 in Újvidék, Bács-Bodrog County, Vojvodina, Hungary (today Serbia) – 2 July 1902 in Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech chemist, specialising in inorganic chemistry.

Šafařík was the son of Pavel Jozef Šafárik, a Slovak philologist and historian.

In Göttingen, he was involved in the investigation of the reaction of metals with alkyl iodides and produced diethylmagnesium.

In 1859, together with fellow chemist Antonín Bělohoubek, he participated in a detailed chemical and microscopic analysis of the authenticity of the notorious Queen's Court (Dvůr Králové) and Green Mountain (Zelená Hora) manuscripts.

In 1860, Šafařík published the first introductory university textbook of chemistry in Czech (Základové chemie čili lučby).