Abstract
On the occasion of last-year graduation centennial as well as the 50th retirement anniversary of Stanislav Mentl (1894-1981) after a half-century activity in the fields of cardiology, biotypology, anthropology, and balneology, his peasant roots and the first half of his life are remembered here including the study years in Prague, the work at the Cardiology Department of the University Outpatient Clinic as well as the involvement in the founding of the Czechoslovak Society of Cardiology and the Czechoslovak Biotypological Society and the direction of our first inpatient cardiological ward up to the participation as the Minister of Public Health in Jan Syrovy's 12-day government that declared and successfully performed general mobilization but did not survive the Munich diktat (the other half of the life from the post-war decline and fall of the Czech Society of Cardiology President up to his posthumous rehabilitation deserves a separate treatise).