Kvaček Robert
Prof., PhDr., CSc.
Born July 5, 1932 in Dvorce
- Member of Learned Society since 2004
Educational and professional preparation:
- 1951, graduate academic secondary school, Jičín;
- 1951-1956, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University (FP CU);
- 1965, CSc., FP CU;
- 1967, PhDr., FP CU;
- 1966, Associate Professor in Czechoslovak history;
- 1990, Full Professor in Czechoslovak and Czech history, FP CU
Employment and academic positions:
- 1956-1959, assistant lecturer, FP CU; 1959-1967, lecturer, PF CU;
- 1967-1990, Associate Professor, PF CU;
- 1990-2002, Professor, PF CU;
- 2002-present, External Professor, PF CU;
- 1998-present, Professor, Pedagogical Faculty, Technical University (PF TU) in Liberec (part time)
Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies:
- 1990-1996, Member, Scientific Council, PF CU
- 1993-2003, Member, T. G. Masaryk Institute, AS CR (AS CR)
- 1998-present, Member, Curatorium of Masaryk Institute
- 1998-present, Member, Scientific Council, Hradec Králové University
- 1998-present, Member, Scientific Council, PF TU
- 2002-present, Member, Assembly of AS CR
- 2002-present, Member, Council of National Museum
- 2002-present, Member, Scientific Council, Czechoslovak Documentation Centre
- 1990, Member, Higher Editorial Board, Czech Historical Journal
- 2003-present, Member, Commission for Science of Literary Fund of CR
Membership and positions in international organizations and societies:
- 1993, Member, Czech-Slovak Commission of Historians, Prague-Bratislava
- 1995, Member, Czech-Russian Commission of Historians, Prague-Moscow
Notable awards:
- 1976, Annual Award, Mladá fronta Publishing House, Prague
- 1984, Annual Award, Melantrich Publishing House, Prague
- 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004, E. E. Kisch Award, International Jury, Prague
- 1998, Medal, Charles University
- 2002, Medal, PF TU, Liberec,
- 2003, Annual Award, KALF (Non-fiction Literature Club) and SČS Jury, Prague (for authors of factual literature)
Selected publications (all in Czech):
- Fatal Mission, Prague 1958
- Cloudy Over Europe, Czechoslovakia and Europe 1933-1937, Prague 1967
- The History of One Year, Prague 1976
- On Historical Traditions, Prague 1984
- And the World Has Changed, Prague 1987
- Diplomats and the Others, Diplomacy of the Great Three and the Axis, Prague 1988
- Problematical Allies. Political and Diplomatic Relations between Czechoslovakia and France 1937-1938, Prague 1989
- The Case of Emil Hácha (together with D. Tomášek), Prague 1995
- Czech History 1790-1992, Prague 2002
- The First World War and the Czech Question, Prague 2003
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