Jan Dylik - a leading periglacial researcher and an internationalist

Abstract

The paper presents the profile of Jan Dylik as a researcher who has had a difficult life path – from his youth and first contacts with Swedish geologists, including Gerard de Geer, his stay in Lapland, through the very difficult period of World War II, and then building a scientific position in the new reality. It presents Jan Dylik, who in the fifties and sixties achieved the position of a leading world geographer and geomorphologist, inspiring periglacial research and international cooperation.