Miloslav Stingl

Miloslav Stingl (19 December 1930 – 11 May 2020) was a Czech ethnologist, traveller and author.^[1][2] He was an expert on Mayan culture and the history of pre-Columbian America.

Stingl was born in Bílina. He studied international law at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University before switching to ethnography.^[3] He worked for ten years at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1972.^[3] Stingl was a signatory of the Anticharta [cs], a condemnation of Charter 77. However Stingl signed unaware of the content of the Charter, and later regretted his participation.^[3]