92 Notable alumni of
Masaryk University
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Masaryk University is 557th in the world, 205th in Europe, and 3rd in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 92 notable alumni from Masaryk University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Adam Ondra
- Occupations
- rock climbermountaineer
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Adam Ondra is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. In 2013, Rock & Ice described Ondra as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation. Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines in the same year (2014) and is one of the two male athletes (alongside Sorato Anraku in 2023) to have won the World Cup series in both disciplines (lead climbing in 2009, 2015, and 2019 and bouldering in 2010).
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Petr Fiala
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1983-1988 graduated with magister degree in Czech and history
- In 1989 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in history
- In 1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- political scientistediting staffpoliticianhistorianpedagogue
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Petr Fiala is a Czech politician and political scientist who has been the prime minister of the Czech Republic since December 2021 and leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2012 to 2013. Prior to entering politics, he was the rector of Masaryk University.
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Petr Nečas
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- physicistpolitician
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Petr Nečas is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013, and as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1993 to 2013.
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Kateřina Konečná
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in public administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kateřina Konečná is a Czech politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic since 2013. Since 23 October 2021 she has been the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM).
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Jaroslav Kubera
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- politician
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Jaroslav Kubera was a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party, who served in the Czech Senate representing Teplice from 2000 and the Senate President from 2018 until his death in 2020. He previously served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.
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Lubomír Zaorálek
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- teacherpolitician
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Lubomír Zaorálek is a Czech politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017, and Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Andrej Babiš from 2019 to 2021. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1996 to 2021, and unsuccessfully ran for the premiership in the 2017 election but his Social Democratic Party received only 7% of the vote.
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Miloš Vystrčil
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Graduated with doctor rerum naturalium in physics and mathematics
- Occupations
- politicianpedagogue
- Biography
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Miloš Vystrčil is a Czech politician serving as the President of the Senate since 2020 and Senator from Jihlava district since 2010. Vystrčil previously served as Mayor of Telč and governor of Vysočina Region.
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Karel Höger
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1932-1933 studied aesthetics
- Occupations
- Esperantistrecitertelevision actorstage actoractor
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Karel Höger was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1939 and 1977.
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Iva Bittová
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- composerfilm actorstage actorviolinistsongwriter
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Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and instrumental technique gained her international recognition. Since then, she has performed regularly throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, and has released over eight solo albums.
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Robert Šlachta
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officercustoms officer
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Robert Šlachta is a Czech politician and former police and customs officer who has been serving as the senator for Břeclav since 2024. He has been the leader of Přísaha since June 2021. He was previously head of the Unit for Combating Organised Crime (Czech: Útvar pro odhalování organizovaného zločinu, ÚOOZ) from January 2008 to June 2016.
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Radim Uzel
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- physiciangynecologistsexologistpedagogueopinion journalist
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Radim Uzel was a Czech sexologist and director of the Society for Family Planning and Sexual Education (Společnost pro plánování rodiny a sexuální výchovu). He was also an unsuccessful candidate to the Senate of the Czech Republic.
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Jan Skácel
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- translatorprose writerwriterradio dramaturgediting staff
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Jan Skácel was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech.
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Jiří Grygar
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1954-1957 studied physics
- Occupations
- science communicatorastronomer
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Jiří Grygar is a Czech astronomer, popularizer of science and Kalinga Prize (1996) laureate.
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Markéta Gregorová
- Occupations
- politician
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Markéta Gregorová is a Czech politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, representing the Czech Pirate Party. Gregorová serves as the Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, and is a member of the Committee on International Trade and the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation.
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Tomáš Zdechovský
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- politicianwriterpoetjournalist
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Tomáš Zdechovský is a Czech politician and businessperson. In 2004, he founded Commservis.com, a communications and PR agency, of which he was CEO until his election as a Member of the European Parliament in 2014. Since 2014 he has been a Member of the European Parliament with KDU-ČSL, which is part of the European Peoples Party.
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Ondřej Sekora
- Occupations
- writerentomologistdraftspersonjuristpainter
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Ondřej Sekora was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, journalist and entomologist. He is known mainly as an author of children books. Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia.
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Mikuláš Bek
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1981-1986 graduated with doctor of philosophy in musicology
- Occupations
- sociologistmusic publicistuniversity teacherpoliticianmusicologist
- Biography
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Mikuláš Bek is a Czech musicologist and politician, who has been serving as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since May 2023. He previously served as the Minister of EU Affairs from December 2021 to May 2023.
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Kateřina Tučková
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied Czech studies and art history
- Occupations
- art historiancuratorwriterexhibition curator
- Biography
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Kateřina Tučková is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller translated into 16 languages.
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Milan Uhde
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- opinion journalistpoliticianpoetcriticwriter
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Milan Uhde is a Czech playwright and politician. He is a member of the Civic Democratic Party.
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Šárka Kašpárková
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- basketball playerathletics competitor
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Šárka Kašpárková is a Czech former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.
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Tomáš Špidlík
- Occupations
- journalistpedagoguewriterCatholic priestuniversity teacher
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Tomáš Josef Špidlík, S.J. was a Czech prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Jesuit priest and theologian. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 2003.
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Marcel Kolaja
- Occupations
- software engineerpolitician
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Marcel Kolaja is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a former Czech Pirate Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024 and Quaestor of the European Parliament from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
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Jan Keller
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- sociologistpoliticianecologist
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Jan Keller is a Czech sociologist and politician. Since 2014, he has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic, elected as a non-partisan for the Social Democratic Party. He publishes political commentaries and essays mainly in the Czech daily Právo.
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Martin Baxa
- Occupations
- pedagoguepoliticiancivil servantteacher
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Martin Baxa is a Czech politician who has served as the Czech Minister of Culture in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since December 2021. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since October 2017. He previously served as Mayor of Plzeň from 2010 to 2014, and again from 2018 to 2022.
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Ludvík Kundera
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- journalistpoeteditorGermanistlinguist
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Ludvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. In 2009, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Award, presented by the Charter 77 Foundation. Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera.
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Miroslav Grebeníček
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- politicianhistorianpedagogue
- Biography
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Miroslav Grebeníček is a Czech politician who was leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) from 1993 to 2005. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1993 to 2021, with only six months absence in 2013.
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Luboš Kohoutek
- Occupations
- astronomerdiscoverer of asteroidsscientist
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Luboš Kohoutek was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. He also discovered a large number of planetary nebulae.
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Petr Hladík
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 2005-2010 graduated with magister degree in applied computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Petr Hladík is a Czech politician who has served as Czech Minister of the Environment in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala since March 2023. He served as the deputy chairman of KDU-ČSL from March 2019 to October 2024.
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Petr Gazdík
- Occupations
- pedagoguepoliticianteachereducation ministermayor
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Petr Gazdík is a Czech politician who has been member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2010. He served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to June 2022 and was a leader of Mayors and Independents party from 2009 to 2014 and 2016 to 2019. Previously he was a mayor of Suchá Loz. He is married and he has four children.
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Jaroslav Soukup
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- biathleteprofessional fitness coach
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Jaroslav Soukup is a retired Czech biathlete.
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Luděk Niedermayer
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- politicianeconomistbank officer
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Luděk Niedermayer is a Czech politician and economist, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Czech Republic since July 2014, representing TOP 09, part of the European People's Party. He also currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the European Parliament.
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Josef Augusta
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
- Biography
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Josef Augusta was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach, and a silver medalist from the 1976 Winter Olympics. He was the father of former hockey player Patrik Augusta.
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Jan Veleba
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan Veleba is a Czech politician and agricultural functionary. He was a Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since 2012 Czech Senate election. In March 2014 he was elected a new Chairman of the Party of Civic Rights after Zdeněk Štengl.
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Libor Michálek
- Occupations
- politicianbrokercivil servanteconomist
- Biography
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Libor Michálek is a Czech economist, politician, and whistleblower. He led successful corruption cases against the Czech National Property Fund and the Environment Ministry as former employees of both. He was the first Pirate Party candidate to be elected to office in a national legislature. His senatorial term was 2012–2018.
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Martin Palouš
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- politicianphilosopherambassadorpedagogueuniversity teacher
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Martin Palouš is the ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Czech Republic. He presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 11 September 2006. Palouš is married to Pavla Paloušová and they have two children.
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Marie Chatardová
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- diplomatlawyer
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Marie Chatardová is a Czech diplomat, currently the Czech ambassador to the United Kingdom. She is the first woman appointed to this post since 1918. In 2017, Forbes magazine named Chatardova as the fourth most influential woman in the Czech Republic.
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Jiří Kratochvil
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- editing staffjournalistarchivistphilologistradio editor
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Jiří Kratochvil is a Czech writer.
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Ivona Březinová
- Occupations
- teacherwriter
- Biography
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Ivona Březinová is a Czech writer of fiction for children and adolescents.
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Petr Váša
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- writerlyricistcomposervisual artistpoet
- Biography
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Petr Váša is a Czech poet, rock singer-songwriter, experimental actor, artist and educator. In 1985 he founded his first band called Z kopce (Czech "downhill"). From 1999 he performed with Ty Syčáci. He is also member of the rock band Jasná Páka.
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Luboš Perek
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- astronomer
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Luboš Perek was a Czech astronomer best known for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. He worked on the distribution of mass in the galaxy, high-velocity stars, planetary nebulae, definition of outer space, geostationary orbit, space debris, and management of outer space.
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Jaroslav Šabata
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- political scientistpoliticianpsychologistpedagogueuniversity teacher
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Jaroslav Šabata was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era. A leading dissident based in Brno, Šabata was a signatory of Charter 77 in 1977. He served as the spokesman of Charter 77, the organization named for the document, from 1978 to 1981.
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Jiří Zlatuška
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- In 1981 graduated with doctor rerum naturalium in informatics
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiancomputer scientistpedagogue
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Jiří Zlatuška is a Czech informaticist, university professor and politician. He was elected in the parliamentary election in 2013 to the Chamber of Deputies on the ANO 2011 platform. From 2015 to 2019 he was Dean of the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University.
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Josef Augusta
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- university teacherprose writerwriternon-fiction writerpaleontologist
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Josef Augusta was a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer.
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Adam Václavík
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- athlete
- Biography
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Adam Václavík is a Czech biathlete. He has competed in the Biathlon World Cup.
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Ondřej Liška
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianreligious studies scholarpolitical scientist
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Ondřej Liška is a Czech politician, who served as Minister of Education under Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek in his second cabinet. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for South Moravia from the 2006 legislative election until May 2010. He was the chairman of the Green Party.
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Eliška Wagnerová
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- In 1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyerjournalistscientist
- Biography
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Eliška Wagnerová was a Czech judge and politician. A member of the Green Party, she served as president of the Supreme Court from 1998 to 2002 and was a Senator from 2012 to 2018. Wagnerová died on 18 January 2025 at the age of 76.
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Otakar Borůvka
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied in 1921-1923
- Occupations
- university teacherpedagoguemathematician
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Otakar Borůvka was a Czech mathematician. He is best known for his work in graph theory.
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Tomáš Julínek
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- politicianmanagerphysician
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Tomáš Julínek is a Czech politician and physician. From 2006 to 2009, Julínek served as the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Civic Democratic Party.
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Lumír Ondřej Hanuš
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- opinion journalistanalystchemistpedagogueresearch fellow
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Lumír Ondřej Hanuš is a Czech analytic chemist and leading authority in the field of cannabis research. In 1992, he and William Anthony Devane isolated and first described the structure of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter.
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Ernst Wiesner
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- designerteacherarchitect
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Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno. His ancestors with German surnames Wiesner came from the area of modern Austria.
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Leo Eitinger
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- physicianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Agepsychiatristwriter
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Leo Eitinger was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator. He was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later. He devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan (1920–1970), Primo Levi (1919–1987) and many others to commit suicide several decades after the experience. Eitinger was a pioneer of research into psychological trauma among refugees, and also laid the foundation for Norwegian military psychiatry research with emphasis on psychological trauma among soldiers.
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Jiří Levý
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- translatoruniversity teacherteacherliterary theoristliterary scholar
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Jiří Levý was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician. Levý's work was crucial for the development of translation theory in Czechoslovakia and it has subsequently influenced scholars internationally.
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Petr Hruška
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1999-2003 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- engineerscreenwriterpoetliterary criticwriter
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Petr Hruška is a Czech poet, screenwriter, literary critic and academic.
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Venceslas Kruta
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- university teacherhistorianarchaeologist
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Venceslas Kruta is a French archaeologist and historian. He is the director of European protohistory studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University. Kruta has also directed the Centre d'Études Celtiques in Paris and the journal Études Celtiques, and has chaired the editorial board of the journal Gallia (CNRS).
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Jan Němec
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- poetphotographeropinion journalistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Jan Němec is a Czech writer. He was born and raised in Brno. He studied at Masaryk University and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, both in Brno.
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Lukáš Vlček
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Lukáš Vlček is a Czech politician and businessman who has served as Czech Minister of Industry and Trade in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since October 2024 and as first vice-chairman of Mayors and Independents since July 2022. He has been both a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic and mayor of Pacov since 2021. Vlček previously served as a representative of the Vysočina Region from 2012 until 2021.
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Antonín Přidal
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- television writerwriterscreenwriterdramaturgeplaywright
- Biography
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Antonín Přidal was a Czech translator from English, Spanish and French, and writer, journalist and university lecturer.
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Hana Horáková
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Hana Horáková is a basketball player from the Czech Republic who plays for BK Brno. She was a member of the national team that won the European title in 2005 by defeating Russia in the final. Playing as a guard she also competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in fifth place in 2004 and in seventh place at the other two Olympics.
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Jitka Seitlová
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- geologistpolitician
- Biography
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Jitka Seitlová is a Czech politician and current senator for Přerov District, a position which she has held since 2014. She also served for the same district between 1996 and 2007. She won in the 1996 Czech Senate election, ahead of ODS candidate Stanislav Žalud. In November 2020, she was elected as deputy speaker (Vice-President) of the Senate.
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Jiří Pernes
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- politicianmuseologistnon-fiction writerteacherhistorian
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Jiří Pernes is a Czech historian.
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Ondřej Benešík
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- politician
- Biography
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Ondřej Benešík is a Czech politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies for KDU-ČSL since October 2013.
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Jiří Mihola
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jiří Mihola is a Czech politician and former member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL) from October 2013 to October 2021.
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Eva Vítečková
- Occupations
- basketball playerteacher
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Eva Vítečková is a Czech basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Zdeněk Rotrekl
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- prose writerwriterediting staffopinion journalistliterary historian
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Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech and Czechoslovak Catholic poet, literary historian and writer. He was severely persecuted for his work and Roman Catholic beliefs during Czechoslovakia's Communist era from 1948 to 1989, including thirteen years in prison. The Communist government also banned his work for more than forty years. The Prague Daily Monitor has called him "one of the most distinguished personalities of the Catholic stream in Czech poetry of the latter half of the 20th century."
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Jan Trefulka
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- translatorjournalistscience fiction writerpoetwriter
- Biography
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Jan Trefulka was a Czech writer, translator, literary critic and publicist.
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Miloslav Petrusek
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- sociologistpedagogueteacher
- Biography
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Miloslav Petrusek was a prominent Czech sociologist who served as a dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague between 1992–1997, as well as the prorector for academic affairs of the university in 1997–2000. For his consistent contribution to sociology and education, he received numerous awards, such as Ordre des Palmes Académiques or Golden Medal of Masaryk University. In 2012, Petrusek received The VIZE 97 Prize (in memoriam).
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Bozhin Laskov
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Bozhin Georgiev Laskov (Bulgarian: Божин Георгиев Ласков; (15 February 1922 – 31 March 2007) was a naturalised Slovak association football player of Bulgarian descent and origin, who played as a striker, noted for his tall stature, impressive physique and great heading. In addition, post-retirement Laskov served as a otorhinolaryngologist and a trained Bulgarian Orthodox priest. After 1946, he lived and worked in Czechoslovakia and is counted among Bulgaria's and Slovakia's best footballers of the era.
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Jaroslav Erik Frič
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- musicianpoetediting staffwriterpublisher
- Biography
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Jaroslav Erik Frič was a Czech poet, musician, publisher and organizer of underground culture festivals.
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Martin Dubéci
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Dubéci is a Slovak politician and member of Progressive Slovakia.
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Olga Sehnalová
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Olga Sehnalová is a Czech politician. Since July 2009, she has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic, representing the Social Democratic Party.
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Vladimír Vetchý
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Vladimír Vetchý is a former Czech politician for Czech Social Democratic Party. He served as defense minister from 22 July 1998 to 3 May 2001 in Miloš Zeman's Cabinet. Vetchý was criticized for failing to meet targets relating to the Czech Republic's NATO accession, leading to his dismissal.
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Martin Černohorský
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- physicistuniversity teacherpedagogue
- Biography
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Martin Černohorský was a Czech physicist, professor of physics at Masaryk University, and the first rector of the Silesian University in Opava. Černohorský died on 9 February 2024, at the age of 100.
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Hana Librová
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Graduated with doctor rerum naturalium
- Occupations
- ecologistpedagogueuniversity teacherwriterbiologist
- Biography
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Hana Librová is a Czech biologist and later sociologist and environmentalist. She contributed to the establishment of the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University. She has carried out research on environmental lifestyle and environmental values.
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Martin Potůček
- Occupations
- opinion journalistjournalistpedagoguepolitical scientistwriter
- Biography
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Martin Potůček is Czech academic and journalist.
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Jan Beránek
- Occupations
- writermanagerpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Beránek is a Czech ecological activist, energy expert, politician, employee of Greenpeace and former member and chairman of Czech Green Party.
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Petr Duchoň
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Petr Duchoň is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.
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Luděk Navara
- Occupations
- writerpoetjournalistediting staff
- Biography
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Luděk Navara is a Czech non-fictional author, publicist and historian.
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František Emmert
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied religious studies and study of history
- Occupations
- writerjuristjournalistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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František Emmert is a Czech historian and writer. He is an author of books about modern European and Czech history.
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Vital Voranau
- Occupations
- translatorjournalistpoetuniversity teacherpublisher
- Biography
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Vital Voranaŭ is a Belarusian-Polish playwright, translator, writer, academic, and poet. He is a co-founder of Belarusian Cultural and Scientific Centre in Poznań and the publishing house Bely Krumkacz. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and now lives in Poland. He completed his doctorate at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and teaches Irish literature and history of Belarus in Southwestern College in the United States.
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Jan Firbas
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- 1945-1947 studied philosophy and English studies
- Occupations
- pedagoguewriterphilologistlinguist
- Biography
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Jan Firbas, was a Czech linguist and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.
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Paul Mauffray
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- music educatorconductor
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Paul Mauffray is an American conductor and laureat of the 2007 Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition, The American Prize for Conductors, and 1996 Freedman Conducting Competition. He has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana State University, Justus Liebig University, Masaryk University (Brno), and earned a Masters of Music degree in Orchestra Conducting as an Associate Instructor / Assistant Conductor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
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Emil Paleček
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- chemistuniversity teacherbiochemist
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Emil Paleček was a Czech biochemist, who researched how DNA can be used to diagnose genetic diseases. Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be analysed by electrochemical research, contradicting previous assumptions from the 1950s that DNA molecules were too large to be affected by electrochemistry.
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Marek Pivovar
- Occupations
- opinion journalistscreenwriterplaywrightediting staffwriter
- Biography
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Marek Pivovar was a Czech writer, dramaturge, playwright and radio director.
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Vojtěch Adam
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Vojtěch Adam is a Czech politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2017, representing South Moravian Region for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
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Milan Tošnar
- Occupations
- track and field coachcoachathletics competitorrunnersports official
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Milan Tošnar was a Czech athlete (hurdler), coach and sports official. He was the first Czechoslovak runner for 110 metres Hurdles, which exceeded 15 seconds. Multiple representative of Czechoslovakia. Medalist in international university competitions.
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Dita Přikrylová
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- computer scientistmanager
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Dita Přikrylová is a Czech software engineer, a social entrepreneur, and the founder of Czechitas, a non-profit organization based upon Girls Who Code which provides technical education and networking possibilities for women and youth in information technologies.
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Jaroslav Brožek
- Occupations
- art theoristart educatorpedagoguedraftspersongraphic artist
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Dr. Jaroslav Brožek, CSc. was a Czech artist and professor of art, theorist in color theory, art teaching and methodologies. He authored a number of publications about color and its effects on human perception, and together with other authors he prepared textbooks for primary schools as well as art schools in the Czech Republic.
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Miroslav Tetter
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiannaturalistbiologist
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Miroslav Tetter was a Czech politician and academic. He was a representative of the South Bohemian Region from 2000 to 2008 and Mayor of České Budějovice from 1998 to 2006 and again in 2010. In his earlier political career he served in the České Budějovice City Council.
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František Wolf
- Enrolled in Masaryk University
- Studied in 1928
- Occupations
- mathematician
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František Wolf was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to trigonometry and mathematical analysis, specifically the study of the perturbation of linear operators.
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Vojtěch Kučera
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- editorpoetgeographerwriterediting staff
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Vojtěch Kučera is a Czech poet and literary editor. He studied geography at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk University in Brno. He is a longtime editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Weles.
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František Moravec
- Occupations
- parasitologistediting staff
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František Moravec is a Czech parasitologist who specialises on the Nematodes, especially the nematodes parasites of fishes. His research is mainly in the field of taxonomy of the Nematoda.
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Aleš Svoboda
- Occupations
- writerpedagogue
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Aleš Svoboda was a Czech linguist, university professor, and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.
