in Prague, from which he graduated in 1881.

He began practice in Vienna in 1888. He became an official in the ministry of health and in his spare time he took an interest in insects. Through the influence of Ladislav Duda he began to specialize in the leafhoppers, examining the collections of Jindrich Uzel from Sri Lanka. Melichar returned to live in Brno in 1912 and during World War I he headed