biographies and memoirs(62)

Biografický slovník 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy 1945–2008 (M–Ž)

This second and last volume of the Biographical Dictionary of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 1945–2008, concludes the...

Vzpomínky na 60 let v oboru sociální politiky, správy a práva 1955–2015

Studentské hnutí odporu

The personality of Josef Šárka (1918–2008) is connected with significant milestones in the fight against totalitarian regimes in Czechosl...

Příběhy budování občanského sektoru v České republice po roce 1989

Stories of the Building of the Civic Sector in the Czech Republic after 1989 presents a new perspective on the formation of the civic sec...

Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting

Jaroslav Malina (1937–2016) was a world-renowned scenographer and painter. Essays included in this book cover the diverse aspects of his ...

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

An English translation of a successful title by the first post-1989 Czech ambassador to Israel, Miloš Pojar. The book is a result of the ...

Dějiny a sebetvorba

This book asks the question of how Jacob Burckhardt, a cultural historian almost forgotten in our context, could have inspired a much mor...

Jacob Burckchardt jako Nietzschův modelový čtenář

Masaryk iritující a fascinující

Masaryk Irritating and Fascinating is a vivid and engaging rendition of T. G. Masaryk’s life story as well as of the philosophical legacy...

Rozmluvy s Antonínem Švehlou a o Švehlovi

This memoir-based text written by Czech journalist, diplomat and author, Karel Mečíř, is devoted to Antonín Švehla, a Czech politician, s...

Vzpomínky agrárního diplomata Karla Mečíře

Vzpomínky chirurga

With a career as a surgeon of sixty years and focusing on many developmental phases this medical field has undergone, the author consider...

Od střízlíka přes člověka k vorvaňovi

Milan Klíma (* 1932) wanted to be an ornithologist, however, he transferred from the Institute for the Research of Vertebrae Biology in B...

Mozaika vzpomínek biologa, anatoma, vysokoškolského učitele

Biografický slovník 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy 1945–2008 (A–L)

The history of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, is one of continuous research tasks of the Institute for the History of...