Abstract
Botanist and ecologist Emil Hadač (1914-2003) spent his childhood in the Pardubice region of East Bohemia. He and his brother Jan grew up studying not only botanical science but also broader science research during the interwar period of the first half of the 20th century.
During the World War II, they were credited for organizing professional community life in the region that affected other parts of Bohemia and Moravia. The following years of Emil Hadač's life, which are described in a number of biographic articles (Rambousková, 1994; Kovář, 2003; Rejmánek, 2003; Agnew et Rejmánek, 2003; Rejmánek et al., 2004, etc.), include studies of botany at Charles University in Prague, expeditions or research stays in The Island, in Svalbard and Norway, in Iraq and Cuba, engagement at the State Institute for Peloid Research in Frantičkovy Lázně, teaching at the Faculty of Education in Pilsen, conducting research in the Institute of Botany of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in Průhonice and finally assuming a position of director of a newly founded Institute of Landscape Ecology in 1971.