Abstract
The title reflects and documents the professor's lifelong efforts to create aesthetic, understandable and original cartographic works. Karel Kuchar was born in 1906.
Since 1924, when he became a student of geography and biology at the university he had remained connected with the Geographic department of the Faculty of Science, Charles University until his death in 1975. In 1935 he received a degree with a habilitation work Lakes of Eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia and he became the youngest Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science, Charles University.
During the Nazi occupation he was assigned to the State Observatory and then to the State Geophysical Institute. After returning to the University in 1945 he took over the leadership of the State Map Collection, which he gave a new content and concept and he significantly expanded its funds.
In the years 1946-1957 he edited a magazine (by professionals highly acknowledged) Cartographic Overview with a subtitle magazine for theoretical and applied cartography. Professor Kuchar is known among the public of the post-war generation as the author of school geographical atlases and handy and wall maps.
Melantrich published Kuchar's World on dodecahedron for children. The publishing house Melantrich was nationalized in 1950 and its planned projects such as Geography by map, word, and picture have not been carried out.
Attention was paid also to the unique historical cartographic edition Monumenta Cartographica Bohemiae. Professor Kuchar started as physical geographer - limnologist, he was the author of socio-geographical studies; he devoted his whole life to the cartography especially to the historical cartography.
The key geographical disciplines were mutually harmoniously developed in his person.