[Dr. Jan Vanysek: founder of the ophthalmology clinic in Hradec Kralove. A distinguished personality in Czechoslovak ophthalmology].

Professor Vanýsek was the first Czechoslovak ophthalmologist who overstepped the boundaries of the Republic and became one of the foremost scientist in ophthalmology. He was head of a department, consistent more with ideas of the 21st than 20th century. He founded two important ophthalmological school--in Hradec Králové and Brno. He laid the foundations for an experimental institute in Brno which would have become one of the foremost European institutions if Vanýsek had not been condemned by the totalitarian regime in the seventies.