biographies and memoirs(60)

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Tři životy

This book presents the life of political prisoner František Falerski (1927–1969). In his childhood and youth, his personality was shaped...

František Falerski – skaut, politický vězeň a osobnost K 231

Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia

This book tells the story of life of Kamill Resler, attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in post-war Czechoslovakia: Karl ...

The Life of K. Resler, Defence Counsel ex officio of K. H. Frank

Odkaz rychtáře Vaváka

The reeve from Milčice in the Poděbrady district, František Jan Vavák (1741–1816), was one of the most important rural popular scripturis...

Příspěvky k životopisu velkého písmáka

Martinů - osud skladatele

The biography follows the life story of one of the most significant creative forces in Czech classical music in the 20th century, Bohusla...

Ivan M. Havel

Od Puzuka k Sakatekovi (1938–1989)

Poznámky k revoluční akci v Chicagu (1914–1918)

Alois Richard Nykl (1885–1958), an American of Czech origin, is primarily known as a linguist, polyglot and Orientalist. Having traveled ...