AntonÃn Klimek
Antonín Klimek ( born January 18, 1937 in Prague, † January 3, 2005 ) was a Czech Modern historians, archivists and non-fiction author. With Jan Kuklík (1940-2009) and Jan Kuklík (born 1967 ), he is one of the most important modern times historians Czech Republic.
Life and work
He was a nephew of Adolf and Julius Klimek, which were (at that time Austria - Hungary) was born in Nemile at Moravian Schönberg. Antonín Klimek enrolled at the Charles University in Prague and started on the Faculty of Arts, the study of history, which he had shot in 1960. In the years 1960-1990 he was then employed as an archivist in the Archives of the Škoda group in Prague and since 1991 as an archivist in the military archives of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. He was able to do research at the Institute of Marxism -Leninism in Prague and read the files on, inter alia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.
His first work on the diplomacy in Europe and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia, he published in 1989, followed by publications on the origin (28 October 1918) and the Modern History ( 1918-1938 ) Czechoslovakia and biographies of Radola Gajda, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš. In his recent monograph, published in Prague in 2003, he presented the causal link between the rise of the party Adolf Hitler (30 January 1933) and the connection of Czechoslovakia (October 1, 1938) to the German Reich dar.
Antonín Klimek lived with his family in Prague Vinohrady - only took place on 8 October 2007 posthumously made an honorary citizen of Prague.
Works
- Diplomacie na křižovatce Evropy, Prague 1989. Translation Dirk Köster: diplomacy at a crossroads. Foreign policy of Czechoslovakia 1918-1938, Orbis Press Agency, Prague 1989.
- Volume I: Hrad a Pětka 1918-1926, Panevropa, Prague 1996.
- Volume II: Kdo po Masarykovi, 1926-1935, Panevropa, Prague 1998?.
- Also: The life of Edvard Benes 1884-1948. Czechoslovakia in pace and was, Oxford University, New York, New York 1997.