Daneš, Jirí Václav (1880 - 1928)

Summary

Jirí Václav Daneš first came to Australia in 1909 as part of a fifteen month geographical survey. During this trip he explored areas in Queensland (including Cairns and the Barkly tableland), Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia (including Yallingup and Kalgoorlie). When back in Czechoslovakia Daneš worked at the Charles Ferdinand University and eventually was made Dean of the science faculty. He also travelled widely in Europe and America producing many publications, many on karst topography. Jirí Václav Daneš returned to Australia in 1920 as the Consul-general for Czechoslovakia. Three years later he was back in Prague and at the Charles Ferdinand University. In December 1927 he began a long lecture tour of America, but just over four months later he was killed in a car accident. Daneš was a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Queensland and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science.

Details

Chronology

1898 - 1902

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Charles Ferdinand University in Czechoslovakia

1909 - 1910

Career position - Botanical survey in Java and Australia

1912

Career position - Assistant Professor at Charles Ferdinand University

1916

Military service - War service in Sarajevo

1919 - 1923

Career position - Czechoslovakia Consul-General in Sydney

1923

Life event - Returned to Czechoslovakia (Prague)

1925 - 1926

Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Science at Charles Ferdinand University

December 1927

Career position - Lecture tour of America

Published resources

Book Sections

• Cigler, Michael J., 'Daneš, Jirí Václav (1880-1928), geographer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 203-204. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080225b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Chapman, A.D., 'Domin and Danes in Java and Australia 1909-1910', in History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 edited by Short, P.S. (Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society, 1990), pp. 159-164.. Details

Journal Articles

• Danes, J. V.; translated by John Pickett, 'Karst studies in Australia', Helictite, 44 (2018), 1-30. Details
• Dunkley, John; and Welch, Bruce, 'The Australian travels of Jiří Danes: geographer, speleologist and world traveller', Helictite, 44 (2018), 31-43. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15450266. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/21090760. Details
• 'Daneš, Jirí Václav (1880-1928)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466683. Details