František Josef Studnička

František Josef Studnička (1836 to 1903) was a Czech mathematician, meteorologist and university teacher. Born in Janov in Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna, taught as a private tutor, at a high school in České Budějovice and at the Polytechnic in Prague, and from 1871 until his death taught at Charles University in Prague, where he served as rector in 1888 and 1889. He was an active contributor to astronomy and meteorology, led the meteorological section of the Committee for Natural Science Research of Bohemia from 1872, and wrote several high school and university textbooks and popular articles, as well as works on rainfall and cartography. Karel Petr took his doctorate in Prague under his supervision. He died in Prague in 1903.