Geology had already been explored in the Czech Republic, so I went to Libya
Stáhnout obrázek
Jan Král was born on 5 August 1938 in Prague to Jindřiška and Josef Král. He spent the first year of his life on Malá Strana, Míšeňská Street, in the house U Bílého beránka. At the beginning of the war, the family moved to Sedlov (now part of Ratboř) in the Kolín region. During the war, his grandfather was arrested for unspecified support of the resistance. He survived the Terezín Small Fortress and the Mauthausen concentration camp. The Král family survived most of the war in Kolín, where they also experienced bombing. In 1949, the family moved to Barochov in the Benešov region. After elementary school, the witness graduated from the Geological Industrial High School in Prague. He graduated in 1957 and then joined the Jáchymov mines in Příbram as a mine operator in the geophysics department. From 1960 he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CSAV) as a technician. During the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops he participated in the XXIII International Geological Congress in Prague. After 1968 he started working at the Prague Project Institute, where he worked as a technician for exploration work. He participated in two geological expeditions to Libya. From 1986 he worked at the Project Institute of Transport and Engineering Construction. After the Velvet Revolution, he founded an exploration and consulting firm in 1993. He was also involved in the establishment of the Czechoslovak Association of Engineering Geologists (now the Czech Association). He taught at the Czech Agricultural University and the Faculty of Science of Charles University. In 2022 he lived in Prague.
