Václav Jan Staněk

Václav Jan Staněk

Václav Jan Staněk (born July 16, 1907 in Miskovice , Bohemia , † October 5, 1983 in Prague ) was a Czech naturalist , zoologist , mycologist , botanist , zoo director, photographer, filmmaker and author. His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " VJStaněk ".

Live and act

Staněk was the son of a teacher. After graduating from school in Kutná Hora in 1928, he studied at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague , where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the acoustic system of bats. In 1929 Staněk became an employee at the National Museum in Prague. In 1936 Staněk became Jiří Janda's assistant at the Prague Zoo and after Janda 's death he held the post of director from August 1938 to October 1939. During the Second World War he returned to the zoological department of the National Museum, where he remained until 1943. He then worked as a freelance artist, in particular as an author, photographer and filmmaker.

In the 1930s, Staněk published numerous articles in the magazines Pestrém týdnu , Pražském ilustrovaném zpravodaji and Světozoru . Staněk's works include S kamerou za zvěří na našich vodách (1941), O lvíčku Simbovi (1943), The Mysterious Forest (1957), The Beauty of Nature (1958), Big and Small in the Bird World (1958), the Drachensippschaft (1959), the great bear family (1959), to bear track in the Carpathians (1959), visiting monkeys (1959), Simba the lion cub (1959), Beauty of life (1959), animals and water (1959) Cats and kittens (1959), Caution: poisonous snakes (1960), rhinos, hippos, elephants and their relatives (1960), The large animal dictionary of images (1962, foreword by Hans-Wilhelm Smolik ), Non-toxic snakes (1962), The monkey book ( 1962), The large picture lexicon of insects (1968) and Strange animals look at you (1968). He also turned the documentation Do země ledovců (1949), Výři (1951), Volavky na Velky Tisem (1951), Za karpatským medvědem (1952), Škůdci listnatých lesů (1953), Škůdci jehličnatých lesů (1953) and Zvířata for celého na (1956).

literature

• Petr Vilgus: České ilustrované časopisy mezi roky 1918–1945 na příkladu Pražského ilustrovaného zpravodaje a Pestrého týdne . Prague 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Václav Jan Staněk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Václav Jan Staněk in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Biography (czech)
• Directors of the Prague Zoo (Czech)
• Filmography
• Author entry at the IPNI