Zdeněk Kárník
Czech historian and university educator (1931–2011)
Prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Kárník, DrSc. (Czech pronunciation: [ˈZdenyek 'Car-neek]; 25 June 1931 in Dobré – 30 September 2011 in Prague) was a Czech historian and pedagogue.
Life
Zdeněk Kárník was born to the family of eastern Bohemian tradesman František Kárník. His early influences include his elder brother František who worked as a lecturer and later as an assistant professor at Vysoká škola politických a hospodářských věd (University of Political and Economic Sciences) and was a resolute patriot and an anti-nazi resistance supporter during World War II; he died prematurely at age 38. Zdeněk Kárník graduated from the Reálné gymnázium F. M. Pelcla (F. M. Pelcl Gymnasium) in Rychnov nad Kněžnou and was a student of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UPES from 1950; the Faculty was merged with the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Charles University from 1952; and he started teaching at the institution in 1954, becoming a modern Czechoslovak history lecturer in 1965. Zdeněk Kárník got involved in the renascence movement of 1968 at the Faculty; as a result, he had to quit teaching in 1969 and was forced to leave the faculty altogether one year later. He was permitted to return in 1990 (as the Head of the Social History Seminar of the Institute for Economic and Social History). In the meantime (1970–1990), he worked at the State Heritage Care Centre for the Central Bohemian Region.
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