Oldřich Marek was a Czech

Czech people

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 entomologist and teacher, member of Czechoslovak entomological society in Prague

Prague

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 since 1940.

Life

Oldřich Marek was born on April 3, 1911 in Ústí nad Orlicí

Ústí nad Orlicí

Ústí nad Orlicí is a city in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region in Eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. The town is in the Orlické Mountains where the Tichá Orlice and the Třebovka rivers meet....

. He attended Primary school in Dolní Čermná

Dolní Cermná

Dolní Čermná is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,350 inhabitants.Village Jakubovice is administrative part of Dolní Čermná. Village Horní Čermná lies next to Dolní Čermná .-External links:* *...

 and secondary school in Česká Třebová

Ceská Trebová

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. After completing secondary school he left for Slovakia

Slovakia

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 to become a primary school teacher in Smolník

Smolník

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, Stakčín

Stakcín

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 and Trnava

Trnava

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During World War II

World War II

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 (1938–1945) he was employed as a teacher in Slatina u Moravské Třebové, Litice nad Orlicí

Litice nad Orlicí

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 and Dolní Čermná

Dolní Cermná

Dolní Čermná is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,350 inhabitants.Village Jakubovice is administrative part of Dolní Čermná. Village Horní Čermná lies next to Dolní Čermná .-External links:* *...

. In 1941 he began teaching mathematics, physics, chemistry and natural science at secondary school. After military duties in 1945 he worked as a secondary school teacher in Žamberk

Žamberk

Žamberk is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,100 inhabitants.-Museums and Historic Sites:* Municipal Museum – Československé armády 472* House of Prokop Diviš – Helvíkovice 326* Litice - ancient castle...

 until his retirement in 1971.

Work

He specialised in Coleoptera especially the family Nitidulidae. In this group he studied the world fauna

Fauna

Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...

 describing many new genera

Genus

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 and species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

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Literature

• Marek, O. 1982. Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) of Brazil 2. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 26(3-4): 261-268.