Zbyněk Zbyslav Stránský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zbyněk Zbyslav Stránský

Czech university educator

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Kutná Hora, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 21-Jan-2016

Profession: museologist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Zbynek Zbyslav Stránský (26 October 1926- 21 January 2016), was a Czech museologist, considered the “father of scientific museology”.
Between the years 1960 and 1970, he was responsible for one of the first attempts to structure a theoretical basis for museology, when directing the Department of Museology of the Moravian Museum, in Brno.
With the support of the museum director, Jan Jelínek, he founded a School of museological thinking in Brno, aiming to connect museum practice to a specific theoretical system.
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Stránský, as he used to sign his texts, was the pioneer in the construction of a museology that is conceived as social science, creating an autonomous system of thought based on specific concepts.