Josef Sadil

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Josef Sadil (born March 19, 1919 in Prague , † January 19, 1971 there ) was a Czechoslovakian editor at a publishing house, astronomer and leisure myrmecologist . He was interested in ants and ant science . For many years he was the chairman of the planetary section of the Czech astronomical society ČAS. He published a lot in the natural sciences. The public observatory Lidová hvězdárna Josefa Sadila in Sedlčany was named after him.

Life

Josef Sadil finished his high school in 1940, but due to the closure of all universities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , he was unable to continue studying. He worked in various professions, but at the end of the war he was forced to work in a Prague machine factory . After the end of the war he attended the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague, but had to finish his studies for financial reasons. During his studies at the grammar school in 1934 he became a member of the Česká astronomická společnost (Czech Astronomical Society), from 1950 he was chairman of its lunar section and later the planetary section for many years. In 1950, due to his knowledge of the natural sciences, he got the position of a specialist editor at the publishing house Život a práce , later renamed Orbis , where he worked until his retirement and was responsible for many scientific and astronomical publications.

Sadil himself published in the field of astronomy . He was considered a very capable popular science author. He was particularly interested in the planets of the solar system and the moon. He wrote several monographs on the moon, Mars and other planets. In 1963 his book Planety (planets) appeared on the solar system and cosmology in general. His best-known work is probably The Moon and the Planets , which was published in 1963 by Paul Hamlyn in London in large format with illustrations by Luděk Pešek and has been translated into six languages. Sadil also gave numerous lectures, including on television.

From the mid-1930s onwards, Sadil was also very interested in ants, studying them outdoors in his spare time and writing numerous articles for scientific journals. In 1955 he published his contributions from 1936 to 1954 in the monograph Naši mravenci (Our ants).

Josef Sadil suffered from a heart disease and received a disability pension from 1965; he died as a result of this disease.

Trivia

On one occasion, Sadil is said to have called himself an example of scientific dimorphism , being both an astronomer and a myrmecologist .

Publications (selection)

  • Měsíc (The Moon), Orbis, Praha 1953
  • Naši mravenci (Our ants), Orbis, Praha 1955
  • The Moon and the Planets , Paul Hamlyn, London 1963 etc., in collaboration with Artia, Prague 1963 (German title: The planets of the solar system )
  • Planety (planets), orbis. Prague 1963
  • Planeta Země (The Planet Earth), Artia, Prague 1970
  • Procházky vesmírem (Walks through the Universe), Práce, Prague 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sadil Josef , curriculum vitae on the portal of the observatory in Sezimovo Ústí, online at: hvezdarna-fp.eu/.../sadil-josef/
  2. ↑ a b c d F. Kadavý: Josef Sadil zemřel, obituary in Říše hvězd 4/1971 (Journal of the Czech Astronomical Society) on the portal of the Hvězdárna Observatory Františka Pešty v Sezimově Ústí , page 73f., Online at: hvezdarna-fp. cz / ...
  3. ↑ Josef Sadil , short biographical note in the private book database, online at: databazeknih.cz / ...

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SURNAME Sadil, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovakian editor at a publishing house, astronomer and leisure myrmecologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1971
Place of death Prague