Abstract
Karel Chodounsky (1843-1931) - the Czevch physician and founder of the Czech Pharmacology - was an active sportsman and a sports promoter. He founded the first Czech mountaineering organisation - teh Czech section of the Slovenian Alpine Association, whose intensive activities in the mountains of the-present-day Slovenia brought these two nations closer. The members of the Czech section advanced the historical friendly celations between the Czech and Slovenian nations within the Habsburg monarchy, which were bulit since the period of the Czech national revival at the and of the 18th century, in the literature referred to as the Czech-Slovenian mutuality. Mountain hiking played an important role in the mutual befriending.
As e doctor, Karel Chodounsky was interested in all popular types of sport at that time, and studied their health effects and social and psychological significance. He valued the mountaineering as the most beneficial physical activity.