Vladimír Balthasar

Vladimír Balthasar (21 June 1897 – 10 November 1978) was a Czech naturalist and entomologist, also active as a journalist, musicologist and art historian. His scientific work included Coleoptera, Heteroptera and Hymenoptera, and he published more than 200 scientific papers and ten books.

Life and work Balthasar studied aesthetics, music history and art history at Charles University in Prague from 1917 to 1920, zoology from 1926 to 1929, and medicine externally at Comenius University in Bratislava from 1935 to 1939. During the 1920s he worked as a journalist and editor, and also published on music and art history.