Oldřich Fejfar

Oldřich Fejfar (born January 8, 1931 in Prague ) is a Czech paleontologist .

Fejfar studied geology, palaeontology, zoology and anthropology at the Charles University in Prague from 1949 , among others with the professors Josef Augusta and Zdeněk V. Špínar . He received his PhD on Young Pliocene Mammals from Slovakia . From 1954 he was at the Czechoslovak Geological Service (Geological Institute) in Prague, where he stayed until 1991. From 1969 to 1971 he was on a Humboldt fellowship at the University of Munich. From 1992 he was a full professor at the Charles University in Prague, where he retired in 1996.

He is particularly concerned with fossil mammals of the Tertiary and Quaternary and the use of mammalian fossil remains (especially small rodents) in stratigraphy. He took part in expeditions to Cuba (1966), Ecuador (1985), Wyoming, Arizona, Mongolia, China and the Sahara, among others. He was on research stays at numerous museums and universities around the world.

In 2001 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society . In 1995 he received the silver medal from Charles University in Prague. He is a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Society (1996). In 2009 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .

literature

• Biography in Werner K. Weidert Classical sites of paleontology , Volume 2, Goldschneck Verlag 1990, in it by Fejfar: Dolni Vestonice - Station of the Mammoth Hunters .

Fonts

• From trilobites to humans , 1980 (Czech)
• The Petrified Past , Albatros, Prague 1990 (Czech)
• with Gerhard Storch: The rodent from Valeč-Waltsch in Bohemia: a historical fossil mammal find , Münchner Geoscientific Abhandlungen, Volume 26, 1994