Josef Lukl Hromádka (8 June 1889 in

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– 26 December 1969 in

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) was a Czech Protestant theologian. He was a founder of the Christian Peace Conference. Born into a Lutheran peasant family in a village in Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hromádka studied theology in

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and

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, as well as in

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. He was a supporter of and member from its foundation in 1918 of the unified

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. In 1939 Hromádka fled the Nazis into exile, taking up a post at

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in the United States. He returned to Prague in 1947 to resume his post at the Comenius theological faculty. A founder of the Christian Peace Conference, he called the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia 'the greatest tragedy of my life'. He left the movement in November 1968.

Literature

*http://journals.ptsem.edu/id/PSB1999201/dmd008 Tribute by Jan Milic Lochmann, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hromadka, Josef 1889 births 1969 deaths People from Nový Jičín District People from the Margraviate of Moravia Czech Lutherans Czech theologians Christian Peace Conference members Lenin Peace Prize recipients