Prof. Dr. Münir Dündar was born on 16th of September in 1931 and retired in 1998 due to age limit. After he had graduated from The Forestry Faculty of İstanbul University in 1960, he began to \vork at Bolu Regional Forest Directorate, and vvent to Germany with DAAD scholarship. After he had come back Turkey, he \vas charged in The Research Institute of Forestry in Ankara. He began to study as an assistant in The Soil Science and Ecology Department of Forestry Faculty of İstanbul University in 1974. He retired as a professor in 1998.