Dušan Třeštík (1 August 1933 – 23 August 2007) was a Czech

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. He specialized in

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

history ( Dark Ages (500–1000)) of the

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and theory of history. Třeštík was born in 1933 in Sobědruhy, now a part of the city of

Teplice Teplice () (until 1948 Teplice-Šanov; german: Teplitz-Schönau or ''Teplitz'') is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 49,000 inhabitants. It is the second largest Czech spa town, after Karlovy Vary. The hi ...

. He studied history at the

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from 1951 to 1956 where his tutor was František Graus. After two years at the Charles University, since 1958 he worked in the Historic Institute of the Academy of Science and Arts. In his later years he was prominent in its Centre of Medieval Studies. In 1959 he married historian Barbara Krzemieńska and in 1968 he studied in

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and

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. Třeštík was a stark defender of veracity Kristián's legend. As a theorist of history he criticised the neopositivist approach of the mainstream Czech history scholarship and its icon

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. He labeled it as ''faktopis''. Since 1989 he also published a lot of political texts (collected as ''Češi. Jejich národ, stát, dějiny a pravdy v transformaci'', 1999), especially in Lidové Noviny (from 1993 to 1996 he was a member of its editorial board) and

Mladá Fronta Dnes ''Mladá fronta Dnes'' (''Young Front Today''), also known as ''MF DNES'' or simply ''Dnes'' (''Today''), is a daily newspaper in the Czech Republic.Sudeten Germans, but he joined Impuls 99 despite being close to

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. After 9/11 Třeštík was sceptical towards

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politics and the invasion of

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. He died in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

in 2007.

Works

# ''Kosmova kronika: Studie k počátkům českého dějepisectví a politického myšlení'' (1968) # ''Románské umění v Čechách a na Moravě'' (1983) # ''Počátky Přemyslovců'' (1981) # ''Počátky Přemyslovců: Vstup Čechů do dějin (510–935)'' (1997) # ''Mysliti dějiny'' (1999) # ''Češi: Jejich národ, stát, dějiny a pravdy v transformaci'' (1999) # ''Vznik Velké Moravy: Moravané, Čechové a střední Evropa v letech 781–871'' (2001) # ''Mýty kmene Čechů (7. – 10. století): Tři studie ke Starým pověstem českým'' (2003) # ''Češi a dějiny v postmoderním očistci'' (2005)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trestik, Dusan 1933 births 2007 deaths People from Teplice 20th-century Czech historians Czech medievalists Charles University alumni