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The authors commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Slavíks textbook Forensic Pathology for Medical and Legal Students and the 125th anniversary of the 1st Czech forensic autopsy. They introduce professor V. Slavík and describe his personal qualities and expertise. The content of the textbook is described. The topicality of Slavíks explanations and the tradition of Czech forensic pathology are discussed. Key words: forensic pathology - history of Czech forensic pathology - textbooks of forensic pathology.

An autopsy performed in 1600 by a Slovak Dr. Jesenius, professor of anatomy at the Charles University of Prague, was for long years taken for the first public postmortem in this country. According to our investigations, another autopsy for public was done by Dr. med. Simon Grynaeus 6 years earlier in Brno. The fact was verified by a notice in the Municipal Chronic of Brno preserved in basement of the Brno Municipal Archives. Its author was identified as Georg Ludwig von Liebeneck, official chronicler at that time.