František Foit – Czech scholar and African explorer

0522480 - MÚA 2020 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Verbič, B. - Jůnová Macková, Adéla
František Foit – Czech scholar and African explorer.
Práce z dějin Akademie věd. Roč. 11, č. 2 (2019), s. 23-48. ISSN 1803-9448
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : František Foit * Velenje Museum, Slovenia * Africa
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Method of publishing: Open access with time embargo

František Vladimír Foit was a Czech sculptor and explorer who set off to explore Africa twice – before World War II and once again in the 1940s. Through many coincidences his second journey led through Africa to Slovenia. After moving from Kenya, he settled in Velenje and donated part of his extensive collection to the Velenje Museum. In this article we would like to introduce Foit not only as a sculptor but above all as a teacher at Kenyatta College, where he influenced one generation of native African students, and as a collector who saved precious items of African art. The importance of Foit’s collection of African art is documented in the second part of this study.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0306963