Miloslav Stingl
Miloslav Stingl (19 December 1930 – 11 May 2020) was a Czech ethnologist, traveller and author. He was an expert on Mayan culture and the history of pre-Columbian America. • Illustration — Miloslav Stingl in 2015 • Illustration — Miloslav Stingl school report 1944 (SOkA Rakovník) Stingl was born in Bílina. He studied international law at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University before switching to ethnography.
Miloslav Stingl

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- 1930.
- Died
- 2020.
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- Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic.
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- writer, photographer, university teacher, journalist, ethnographer, opinion journalist and ethnologist.
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Miloslav Stingl (19 December 1930 – 11 May 2020) was a Czech ethnologist, traveller and author. He was an expert on Mayan culture and the history of pre-Columbian America. • Illustration — Miloslav Stingl in 2015 • Illustration — Miloslav Stingl school report 1944 (SOkA Rakovník) Stingl was born in Bílina. He studied international law at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University before switching to ethnography.
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He worked for ten years at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1972. Stingl was a signatory of the Anticharta, a condemnation of Charter 77. However Stingl signed unaware of the content of the Charter, and later regretted his participation.

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Miloslav Stingl was born on 19 December 1930.
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Miloslav Stingl died on 11 May 2020.
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