Ornithologist, Phthirapterist, photographer 1942 - joined the Czech Society of Ornithology 1949 - received a RNDr. degree from the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 1953 - employed by the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Acdemy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 1960 - received CSc. degree He described about 22 species of chewing lice and published approximately 90 papers, mostly in ornithology.