Václav Chaloupecký Explained

Václav Chaloupecký
Birth Date:12 May 1882
Birth Place:Dětenice, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Dětenice, Czechoslovakia
Alma Mater:Charles University
Workplaces:Comenius University
Discipline:History

Václav Chaloupecký (12 May 1882 Dětenice, Austria-Hungary – 22 November 1951 Dětenice, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech historian, a student of prominent Czech historian Josef Pekař and the main representative of historians in mid-war Slovakia.

Life

He had studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1903–1907).[1] Then he had worked as an archivist and librarian in Roudnice nad Labem (1907–1919).[2] In 1919, he became a state inspector of Slovak archives and libraries (1919–1938). In the same time, he was also a docent (1922) and professor (1922–1938) of the Czechoslovak history at Comenius University. He held several academic positions e.g. dean (1929–1930) and vice-dean (1930–1931) of the Faculty of Arts, rector (1937–1938) and vice-rector (1938–1939) of the university.[3] In 1939 he became an extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Arts in Prague where he had lectured until 1951 (except WWII). A member of the Scholastic Society of Šafárik.

Work

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Citations

  1. Biografický slovník archivářů českých zemí, s. 257.
  2. Český biografický slovník XX. století I, s. 545.
  3. Web site: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave . Prof. PhDr. Václav Chaloupecký . sk . https://web.archive.org/web/20140504205719/https://www.uniba.sk/index.php?id=1333 . 2014-05-04.

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