| Frič, Antonín Prof. M.D.
University professor, director of zoological and paleontological collections of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia, renowned Czech physician, zoologist, paleontologist, and organizer of the Czech scientific activities. He studied law and, in 1852, he was appointed assistant of the Zoological Department of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1854, he started to study medicine and zoology at the Prague University. He qualified as lecturer in comparative anatomy and physiology at the same university in 1862 and, in 1864, at the College of Technology as lecturer of zoology and paleontology. In the same year he founded Geological and Paleontological Department at the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia where he became director in 1880. He took credit for the extension and structure of its collections. He cooperated with Komitét pro přírodovědecký výzkum Čech (Committee for the Scientific Research in Bohemia) and published many papers. In 1870 he was appointed full member of Královská česká společnost nauk (Czech Royal Society of Science) and, in the following year, he became associate professor at the Prague University. After the split-up of the Prague University he was in charge of its Czech section. All scientific activities in zoology and paleobotany of the second half of the 19th century were centered around him. He published extensively, among his famous papers and monographs are 'Evropské ptactvo' (European Birds), 'Monografie českých netopýrů' (Monograph on the Czech Bats), 'Korýši země České', (Crustaceans of the Czech Lands), 'Studie z oboru českého útvaru křídového' (Study on the Bohemian Cretaceous System), 'Malá geologie čili nauka o vrstvách kůry zemské' (Brief Geology or Science on the Earth‘s Crust Layers), 'Geologické obrazy z pravěku země České' (Geological Images from the Prehistory of the Czech Lands), 'Přehledy českých obratlovců' (Summary of the Czech Vertebrates), and many other publications. His teaching was also very essential as he educated a whole generation of Czech zoologists and paleontologists. When the Czech Academy of Sciences was founded, he was elected a full member and was also a member of many national and foreign scientific institutions and societies.
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born 30th July 1832, Prague, died 15th November 1913, Prague
