# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-hanzelka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:54:58.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-hanzelka"
name: "Jiří Hanzelka"
slug: "jiri-hanzelka"
description: "Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund, known collectively as Hanzelka and Zikmund, were a duo of Czech adventurers known for their travels in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania in the 1940s and 1950s, and for the books, articles, and films they created about their journeys."
tagline: "Czech traveller, photographer and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jiri_Hanzelka_(1920_2003).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-12-24"
deathDate: "2003-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             7.674418604651163
  historical:           8.80702
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1778443/"
    handle:    "nm1778443"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B8"
    title: "Ганзелка, Иржи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B8_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Йиржи Ганзелка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "چيرى هانزيلكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka_(explorateur)"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka (explorateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Hanzelka"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326409"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1996755"
    title: "Jiří Hanzelka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump