Career
In 1789 he became an adjunct to the Imperial administrative office in Prague, where he was in 1801 promoted to Administrator, and in 1805 became a Counselor. Between 1808 and 1832 are no records of his life,—he probably lived outside Prague or abroad. He returned to Bohemia in 1833 as a mining engineer in Zbiroh.
Preysler worked mainly on Coleoptera but also on other insects and spiders.
