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Josef Ludvík Fischer
Josef Ludvík Fischer (6 November 1894 – 17 February 1973) was a Czech philosopher and sociologist, and an exponent of philosophical structuralism. Life Fischer was born on 6 November 1894 in Prague. After studies at upper secondary schools in České Budějovice and Třeboň (he graduated in 1912) he graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, majoring in Czech, German, and philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1919 (PhD. dissertation: ''Arthur Schopenhauer. Genese díla – Arthur Schopenhauer. Genesis of his works''). From 1921 to 1923, he worked in Prague libraries and was actively involved in the left-wing movement. He contributed articles to Stanislav Kostka Neumann's ''Června'', Bedřich Václavek's ''Studentské revue'', and worked with Zdeněk Nejedlý on the magazine ''Var''. Due to his left-wing activities, he was transferred away from Prague, to the Student Library in Olomouc, where he was employed until 1933. From 1924 to 1930, he was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Mahen
Jiří Mahen (born Antonín Vančura; 12 December 1882 – 22 May 1939) was a Czech novelist and playwright. He was a prolific author and his literary work also includes essays, poetry, scientific articles, manuals and fairy tales. He was a significant figure in cultural life in the city of Brno. Life Jiří Mahen was born Antonín Vančura on 12 December 1882, into an evangelical family. He was the third of thirteen children and his father was a baker. His second cousin was the novelist Vladislav Vančura. He studied at the gymnasiums in Čáslav and in Mladá Boleslav, where he graduated in 1902. In Mladá Boleslav, he joined the group of anarchists around Stanislav Kostka Neumann, together with his friends František Gellner and Rudolf Těsnohlídek. His literary beginnings took place at this time, when his poems were published in Neumann's magazine ''Nový kult''. At the age of 19, Vančura chose the pseudonym Jiří Maheu, after the character Maheu in the book '' Germinal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylva Fischerová
Sylva Fischerová (born 5 November 1963, Prague) is a Czech poet, prose writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher and translator of Classical literature and philosophy. She is the official City Poet of Prague. Life Fischerová was born on November 5, 1963, and grew up in Olomouc. She studied French at a language school in Brno, and in 1983 began studies in Philosophy at the Charles University Faculty of Arts in Prague and Physics at the CU Faculty of Mathematics and Physics; in 1985 she transferred to Classical Philology at the same university, where in 1991 she received her M.A., writing her thesis on “The problem of unity of arete in Plato (the Protagorus dialogue)”. She did her post-graduate studies at the same faculty, writing her doctoral dissertation on “Can the Muses Lie? (The Muses in the prooemion of Hesiod’s ''Theogony'')”. Since 1992 she has been employed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at Charles University Prague. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola Fischerová
Viola Fischerová (October 18, 1935 Brno – November 4, 2010 Prague) was a Czech poet, and translator. Life Her father was Josef Ludvík Fischer; her half sister is Sylva Fischerová. She studied Slavic studies at universities in Brno and Prague. She was a friend of Václav Havel. In the 1960s, she worked as the literary editor of Czechoslovak Radio. In 1968, she went into exile with her future husband Karel Michal to Switzerland, where she studied German and history at the University of Basel and worked as a teacher. After the death of her husband in 1984, she went to Germany and worked with Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Headquartered in Prague since 1995, RFE/RL .... She remarried, to Josef Jedlička, and lived in Prague. Her first collection of poetry could not come out in 1957, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk () is an order (decoration), Order of the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. It was established in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution, and re-established in 1994 (following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia). The President of the Czech Republic awards it to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of democracy, humanity and human rights. Unlike in the past, it is awarded to the Czech citizens and foreigners alike. The order has five classes, of which class I is the highest. The order is named in honor of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, an advocate of Czechoslovak independence and the first President of Czechoslovakia. Design The insignia was designed by Vladimír Oppl. The badge is a blue enameled star-shaped ornament with Masaryk's portrait placed in the center. A medallion placed centrally on the reverse of the badge bears the Greater Coat of arms of the Czech Republic, Coat of Arms of the Czech Republic e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Ludvik Fischer Plaque , a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments
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Josef may refer to *Josef (given name) *Josef (surname) * ''Josef'' (film), a 2011 Croatian war film *Musik Josef Musik Josef is a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments. It was founded by Yukio Nakamura and is the only company in Japan specializing in producing oboes and Cor anglais, cors anglais. Products Oboe *Josef AS, AS *Josef BS, BS *Josef MGS, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normalization (Czechoslovakia)
In the history of Czechoslovakia, normalization (, ) is a name commonly given to the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and up to the ''glasnost'' era of liberalization that began in the Soviet Union and its neighboring nations in 1987. It was characterized by the restoration of the conditions prevailing before the Prague Spring reform period led by the First Secretary Alexander Dubček of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) earlier in 1968 and the subsequent preservation of the new ''status quo''. Some historians date the period from the signing of the Moscow Protocol by Dubček and the other jailed Czechoslovak leaders on 26 August 1968, while others date it from the replacement of Dubček by Gustáv Husák on 17 April 1969, followed by the official normalization policies referred to as Husakism. The policy ended either with Husák's removal as leader of the Party on 17 December 1987, or with the beginning of the Velv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
