Guest Editorial Tribute to Professor Jan Fousek and Professor Vaclav Janovec.

The article profiles Jan Fousek and Václav Janovec, two colleagues to whom the volume of "Ferroelectrics" is dedicated. Accordingly, Fousek became heads of the Department and he has enjoyed a warm personal relationship until his death in 2008. Janovec however, was invited as a visiting professor to the University of Dijon in Dijon, France and later on several occasions and also to the Universities of Montpellier, Karlsruhe and Rennes.