The life and work of Professor Zdenĕk Frankenberger, the founder and first head of the Institute of Histology and Embryology at the School of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava

The life and work of Prof. MUDr. Zdenek Frankenberger is presented with the main focus on the 16-year period of his activities in Slovakia. His contribution to the history of the Bratislava School of Medicine is great both with regard to his activities both as its founder and excellent teacher of generations of Slovak doctors. He was striving hard to establish the Institute of Histology and Embryology whose first head he became. He participated in the establishment and development also of other institutes of the School of Medicine. An analysis of his remarkable and voluminous scientific work displays the extent of his education, knowledge and interests. His studies covered a broad range of scientific problems in the field of histology, microscopic anatomy, embryology, comparative anatomy and anthropology. Yet he was engaged also in faunal studies and became a reknown expert in entomology. Prof. Frankenberger contributed considerably to the executive work of the Medical School and was its vice-dean and dean.