Address. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Janackovo nam 2a, 662 95 Brno, Czech Republic
E-mail: janyska@math.muni.cz, kolar@math.muni.cz
Abstract. Karel Svoboda, Doctor of Natural Science, the ordinary professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk University in Brno and the founding member of the editorial board of Archivum Mathematicum, died on August 19, 1997.