EARTH SCIENCES (geology, paleontology, mineralogy, mining, geophysics, geography, geomorphology, cartography etc) - personal papers

Photo of a young Papuan woman taken during Jiri V. Danes’s journey around the Pacific (from his personal papers)

Radim Kettner

Jiri V. Danes (*1880, +1928) - geographer, geomorphologist, 9 boxes + 40 containers of slides, 1843-1958, inventory list

Václav Dědina (*1870, +1956) - geomorphologist, 13 boxes, 1881-1960, inventory

Viktor Dvorský (*1882, +1960) - geographer, 1 box, 1905-1960, inventory

Radim Kettner (*1891, +1967) - geologist, one of the founders of modern Czech geology with a deep interest in the history of the subject. 61 boxes, 1893 - 1966, inventory

Jaromír Koutek (*1902, +1983) - geologist (chiefly researching ore deposits), 40 boxes, 1902 - 1982, unarranged

Jiří Král (*1893, +1975) - geographer, anthropogeographer, 68 boxes, 1908-1975, take-over list

Václav Láska (*1862, +1943) - geophysicist, also astronomer and mathematician, 1 box, 1906 - 1953, inventory

Emanuel Michal (* 1897/?/, +?) - geophysicist, geologist, 1 box, 1916-1963, unarranged

Jaroslav Perner (*1869, +1947) - paleontologist, 2 boxes, 1901-1926, inventory

Josef Petřík (*1866, +1944) - geodesist, 3 boxes, 1894 -1944, take-over list

Emil Petýrek (*1901, +1976) - mining, 3 boxes, 1955-1970, take-over list

Filip Počta (*1859, +1924) - paleontologist, geologist, 3 boxes, 1866-1924, inventory list

Mořic Remeš (*1867, +1959) - geologist, paleontologist, 2 boxes, 1888-1956, inventory list

Josef Ryšavý (*1884, +1967) - geodesist, 10 boxes, 1894-1967, inventory

František Slavík (*1876, +1957) - mineralogist, 2 boxes, 1898-1965, inventory list

Bedřich Šalamon (*1880, +1967) - cartographer (mathematical geography), 14 boxes, 1908-1967, take-over list

Quido Záruba (*1899, +1993) - geologist, 35 boxes, 1920s-1980s, unarranged

Alois Zátopek (*1907, +1985) - founder of modern Czechoslovak geophysics, esp. seismology, founder of a Czechoslovak seismological network, member of many international organizations, e.g 1962-1966 President of the European Seismological Commission and others. 79 boxes, 20 ^th cent. (to 1980s), take-over list (for part)