biographies and memoirs(62)

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Professor Arnold Jirásek (1887–1960), who first came into the public’s view as the doctor who operated on the mortally wounded Jan Opleta...

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

70 let Stomatologické kliniky v Plzni

The team of authors introduces to the reader a brief history of the Dental Clinic in Pilsen and its individual departments, its medical a...

Svět Václava Ciglera

This long-awaited dialogue between two prominent figures – journalist and writer Karel Hvížďala and the doyen of fine arts, glass-maker, ...

On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle

“I love Christmas, that Muslim holiday.” (K. Biebl) In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from ...

Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

Adventures in the Stone Age

When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the K...

A New Guinea Diary

Ohlédnutí...

Looking Back … is a vivid mosaic of Jan Kilian’s memories of his years spent at the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Plzeň, whe...

75 let Lékařské fakulty UK v Plzni

Martyr Christi

P. Adolf Kajpr SJ (1902–1959)

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

Dopisy z nacistického a komunistického žaláře / Briefe aus der NS-Haft und aus dem kommunistischen Gefängnis

Korespondence Josefa Zvěřiny a Aleny Falerské

Theologian and former political prisoner Josef Zvěřina (1913–1990) lived in Praskolesy during the early 1970s, but continued to write var...

(1971–1975)

Rozmluvy ze Šafránku

This publication, Conversations about Šafránek. With a Smile about Life, Growing Old and Old Age, is dedicated to Pilsen native professor...

S úsměvem o životě, stárnutí a stáří

Historik a diplomat Vlastimil Kybal

Vlastimil Kybal (1880–1958), a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University; a Czech historian, a student of Jaroslav Goll, Václa...