Eduard Stehlík (born 30 March 1965) is a
Czech
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historian and writer, and Vice Director at the Institute for Military History in
Prague
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.
He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at
Charles University
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, and has worked at the Institute for Military History since 1989, focusing on Czechoslovak military history. He has also cooperated with
Czech Television
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. He was declared an honorary citizen of Lidice on 27 October 2006.
He is a founding signatory of the
Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was a declaration which was initiated by the Czech government and signed on 3 June 2008 by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, among them former ...
.
On 2 June 2020 Stehlík announced candidacy for the Senate as a Nominee of the
Civic Democratic Party.
Works
* ''Lidice - Příběh české vsi''
* ''Lexikon tvrzí československého opevnění z let 1935-38''
* ''Pevnosti a opevnění v Čechách, na Moravě, a ve Slezsku''
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21st-century Czech historians
Military historians
Czech male writers
Writers from Prague
Czech anti-communists
Charles University alumni
Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) politicians
1965 births
Living people
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
20th-century Czech historians