| Stočes, Bohuslav Prof.
Mineralogist, petrologist, mining engineer, and teacher. After school-leaving examinations at secondary school in Tábor he passed the second state exam in mining engineering at the Mining Academy in Příbram where he became assistant professor at the Department of Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology and Mineral Deposits. In 1917, he earned a Doctorate in Mining Science and, in 1919, he qualified as private associate professor in petrography. In 1920, he was appointed adjunct professor and in 1930 full professor at the Mining Academy in Příbram, where he worked till his premature retirement in 1948. He elaborated a large number of expert opinions on ore, coal, and oil deposits, and also on deposits of industrial minerals and rocks and ceramic materials. He studied the issue of undermining and its effects on surface objects. At the end of his teaching at the university he published two-volume monograph “Nerostné suroviny” (Mineral Resources, 1947). He studied the Central Bohemian Pluton and relationship between geology and mining. Later he concentrated on mining and published relevant books like 'Základy hornictví' (Essentials of Mining, published in 1945, 1950 a 1951), translated into English in 1951, and into Russian in 1957. In 1954 - 1959 he published altogether 8 volumes of 'Atlas dobývacích metod' (Atlas of Mining Methods), where he depicted and critically appraised the old and new mining methods, which met with a good response abroad and the author was invited to participate in the Committee for Mining Methods in Germany. The monograph 'Wahl und Beurteilung der Abbauverfahren im Bergbau' (Stuttgart 1958) made him popular particularly in Germany. He worked out at least 150 expert opinions on engineering and economic geology. He discovered the deposit of glass sand in Střeleč near Jičín. He was editor of some periodicals, undertook study journeys throughout the whole Europe and Africa and was member of many scientific institution. After foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic he participated in the draft document for the government advocating establishment of the State Geological Survey (now the Czech Geological Survey). |
born 20th August 1890, Lhota u Příbrami, died 8th June 1969, Prague
