Vratislav Mazák

Vratislav Mazák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvracɪslaf ˈmazaːk]; 22 June 1937 – 9 September 1987) was a Czech biologist who specialized in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy. He was also a painter, often illustrating his books about animals and men.

Born at Kutná Hora, he was a professor^[ambiguous] at the Charles University's Faculty of Science^[1] and worked as a zoologist at the Prague National Museum. With Colin Groves, Mazák described, named and classified the early hominin Homo ergaster. He also described the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris corbetti.^[2]

He died in Prague.

Major publications

In Czech

• Naši savci (1970), Our Mammals
• Kostra velryby v Národním muzeu v Praze a krátký pohled do světa kytovců (1976), The skeleton of the whale in the Prague National Museum and a brief look into the world of cetaceans
• Jak vznikl člověk: Sága rodu Homo (1977), The Origin of Man - Saga of the genus Homo; with Zdeněk Burian
• Velké kočky a gepardi (1980), Big cats and cheetahs
• Jak vznikl člověk: (Sága rodu Homo) (1986), The Origin of Man—Saga of the genus Homo, a revised and enlarged edition; with Zdeněk Burian
• Kytovci (1988), Cetaceans
• Pravěký člověk (1992), Prehistoric Man; with Zdeněk Burian

In German

• Der Tiger: Panthera tigris Linnaeus, 1758 (1965)
• Die Namen der Pelztiere und ihrer Felle (1974)
• Der Tiger: Panthera tigris (1979)
• Der Urmensch und seine Vorfahren (1983)

See also

• Konstantin Satunin

References

1. Charles University^{[permanent dead link]}
2. Mazák, V. (1981). (PDF). Mammalian Species (152): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504004. JSTOR 3504004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2005.

External links

• Biography, photo and bibliography (mostly in Czech)