Jiří Pernes (4 July 1948 – 21 May 2025) was a Czech historian.

Life and career

From 1984 to 1990, he was the director of the Historical Museum in

Slavkov u Brna Slavkov u Brna (; ) is a town in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,300 inhabitants. The town gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz, which took place several kilometres west of the town. The his ...

(Austerlitz), and from 1990 to 1992, he was director of the Moravské zemské muzeum in

Brno Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...

. In 2010, he was dismissed from his position as director of the

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ( or ÚSTR) is a Czech government agency and research institute. It was founded by the Czech government in 2007 and is situated at Siwiecova street, Prague- Žižkov (the street is named after ...

after allegations that he had plagiarized large portions of his 1997 book about

Emanuel Moravec Emanuel Moravec (; 17 April 1893 – 5 May 1945) was a Czech army officer and writer who served as the collaborationist Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of ...

from another person's doctoral dissertation. Pernes said that he had never knowingly copied the work of others. In 2011, he directed the

. Jiří Pernes held lectures at

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after To ...

in Brno and at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He worked in the Institute for Contemporary History at the

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, , abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sc ...

in Brno. He wrote many books and papers about Moravian,

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and

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history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Pernes died on 21 May 2025, at the age of 76.

References

Selected works

* ''Spiklenci proti Jeho Veličenstvu aneb Historie tzv. spiknutí Omladiny v Čechách'', Praha 1988 * ''Život plný nepřátel aneb Život a smrt Františka Ferdinanda d'Este'', Praha 1995 * ''Habsburkové bez trůnu'', Praha 1995 * ''Pod moravskou orlicí aneb Dějiny moravanství'', Brno 1996 * ''Maxmilián I. Mexický císař z rodu Habsburků'', Praha 1997 * ''Až na dno zrady. Emanuel Moravec'', Praha 1997 * ''Pod Habsburským orlem. České země a Rakousko-Uhersko na přelomu 19. a 20. století'', Praha 2001, 2006 * ''Takoví nám vládli. Komunističtí prezidenti Československa a doba, v níž žili'', Praha 2003 * ''František Josef I. Nikdy nekorunovaný český král'', Praha 2005 * ''Komunistky. S fanatismem v srdci'', Praha 2006 * ''Krize komunistického režimu v Československu v 50. letech 20. století'', Brno 2008

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pernes, Jiri 1948 births 2025 deaths 20th-century Czech historians Masaryk University alumni Academic staff of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem People from Svitavy Historians of the Czech lands 21st-century Czech historians