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Zdeněk V. Špinar was a leading authority, teacher, and personality in Czechoslovak vertebrate paleontology during the second half of the 20th century, and one of the most renowned paleoherpetologists in the world. He was appointed professor of zoopaleontology on the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University (founded 1348) in Prague, and in this post he trained several generations of Czech and Slovak paleontologists. Although his earliest papers were on invertebrate fossils, he soon turned his attention to fossil amphibians, first to Permian discosauriscids and then to Tertiary frogs. In this respect, he continued a tradition founded by a Czech zoologist and paleontologist, Antonín Frič (known also as Anton Fritsch), during the second half of the previous century. Besides a long series of scientific papers on fossil amphibians, Špinar also wrote several extensive textbooks of both vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, in which he gathered up-to-date knowledge on all major groups of fossil animals. Because these textbooks, which were originally meant for university students, were also widely known among amateur paleontologists, they had a profound effect on the development of paleontology in the whole country. Moreover, the general public (not only from the former Czechoslovakia, but from many other countries as well) knew Špinar from his popular books, titles such as “Life Before Man”, illustrated by Zdeněk Burian. For many professional paleontologists, Špinar’s popularization of paleontology initiated their own professional interest in the discipline. Zdeněk Špinar was born on April 4, 1916 in the small town of Čáslav, about 70 km east of Prague, into the family of the municipal financial commissioner. There he completed five years of mandatory primary school and, at the age of eleven, he entered the first class (“prima”) of the gymnasium, a secondary school preparing students for higher education at a university. At that time, there were two kinds of gymnasiums: (1) the Classical Gymnasium with emphasis on classical education including ancient Greek and Latin languages, which prepared its students for university studies of law, among other subjects; and (2) the so-called Real Gymnasium, which put its focus on science, like mathematics and natural sciences, and modern languages. Špinar’s parents chose for him the latter. He spent eight years at the gymnasium and graduated in June, 1935. ZDENĚK V. ŠPINAR – THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE OF A WORLD-RENOWNED CZECH PALEOHERPETOLOGIST

Zdeněk V. Špinar – The professional life of a world-renowned Czech paleoherpetologist