Božena Komárková (28 January 1903,

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– 27 January 1997,

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) was a Czech

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

. Most of her work remained unknown both in the Czech Republic and abroad till the

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, since

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and

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s persecuted her and tried to isolate her from society. In 2003 a selection of Komárková's essays was published in English under the title ''Human Rights and the Rise of the Secular Age''.

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Czechs and Germans in Our Century (article by Komárková from 1966)
Czech Protestants 1903 births 1997 deaths People from Tišnov Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Czech women philosophers Czech theologians 20th-century Czech philosophers {{Czech-bio-stub