Professor Otmar Karlovac, Ph.D. (1902-1980): Ideas and realisation of the HVAR Expedition

Abstract

       Professor Otmar KARLOVAC was co-organiser and co-leader of the Fishery-biological cruises M.V. HVAR and deserves most credit for its success. He was born on 7 February 1902, in Split. Professor Otmar KARLOVAC worked in the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, off and on from its founding in 1930 and permanently from 1946, where he was the head of the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries in the Institute as well as the head of the Laboratory of Ichthyobenthos until he retired in 1962. Professor KARLOVAC was a thorough scientist, a competent biologist-ichthyologist, an educator, a populazer of marine biology and above all a highly ethical person. In his long scientific and professional work on many marine biology and ecological issues, he published 128 papers out of which 29 original scientific papers, 28 specialised expert papers, 9 science-popular papers and 62 short communications on fishery biology for the Maritime Encyclopaedia.