Václav Cílek
Czech geologist, translator, writer and university educator
About Václav Cílek
Born 1955. Václav Cílek is a Czech pedagogue, writer, translator, geologist, climatologist and science communicator.
Václav Cílek (born 11 May 1955) is a Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher, science popularizer and translator of Tao and Zen texts.
Biography In his youth, Cílek moved to Tanzania, where his father worked as a geologist. From 1969 to 1970, he studied at a high school in Tanzania. Later he continued his studies at the Mining Technical School in Příbram (1970–1974). In 1979 he graduated in geology from the Charles University in Prague. He was a co-creator of the TV series about caves of the Czech Republic, called Podzemní Čechy (The Underground Czech Republic, 2001). Additionally, he was named Laureate by the Minister of Ecology for "valuable contribution to the popularization of Czech science, especially geology and climatology" (2007).
Works 1985: Heavy Mineral Accumulations in Coastal Mozambique 1995: Podzemní Praha: Soupis podzemních objektů hlavního města a vybraná bibliografie, 1997: Píseň pro odcházející duši 2002: Krajiny vnitřní a vnější: texty o paměti krajiny, smysluplném bobrovi, areálu jablkového štrůdlu a také o tom, proč lezeme na rozhlednu, 2003: Střední Čechy: příroda, člověk, krajina, (coauthored by Vojen Ložek and Jarmila Kubíková) 2003: Velká kniha o klimatu Zemí koruny české, Jiří Svoboda, Zdeněk Vašků; (coauthored) 2004: Makom: kniha míst, 2004: Vstoupit do krajiny. O přírodě a paměti středních Čech, (coauthored by Vojen Ložek and Pavel Mudra) 2004: Prague Between History and Dreams. US: Xlibris. 2005: Tichý břeh světa. . (photography by Hana Rysová) 2005: Střední Brdy , (ed.) 2006: Tsunami je stále s námi: eseje o klimatu, společnosti a katastrofách, 2007: Nejistý plamen: Průvodce ropným světem. . (coauthored by Martin Kašík) 2007: Borgesův svět. 2008: Dýchat s ptáky: Obyčejné texty o světle paměti, pravdě oblaků a útěše míst 2008: Podzemní Praha: Jeskyně, doly, štoly, krypty a podzemní pískovny velké Prahy. (photography by Milan Korba and Martin Majer) 2009: Orfeus: Kniha podzemních řek, 2009: Krajina z druhé strany. 2010: Jak to vidí Václav Cílek, (interviews on Czech Radio) 2010: Archeus: Fragment radostné vědy o trpaslících 2011: Krásná paní: Kameny domova, 2012: Prohlédni si tu zemi,
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Czech geologist, translator, writer and university educator
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Václav Cílek was born on 11 May 1955 in Židenice, Brno.
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Václav Cílek is a pedagogue, writer, translator, geologist, climatologist and science communicator.
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