biographies and memoirs(57)

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

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...

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...

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Svět Václava Ciglera

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

70 let Stomatologické kliniky v Plzni