Cyril Horáček

Cyril Horáček

Cyril Horáček (born November 7, 1862 in Horní Počernice, now part of Prague 20 ; † May 9, 1943 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovakian lawyer, economist, politician and finance minister.

Life, political career

Cyril Horáček attended a grammar school in the Clementinum in Prague's Old Town , and from 1881 he studied law at the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. After graduating, Horáček worked as a lawyer, then studied economics. 1889-1902 he was secretary in the city savings bank in Prague. In 1902, after his habilitation, he was appointed associate professor and in 1907 professor of economics at the Charles University. 1908–1909 he was dean of the law faculty and 1923–1924 rector of the university.

Horáček was active in the following political parties:

• Národní strana (National Party)
• Česká strana pokroková (Czech Progressive Party, so-called Realistic Party)
• Českoslovanská strana agrární (RSZML, so-called Agricultural Party)

Horáček performed the following political and government functions:

• 1918–1920 member of the (so-called revolutionary) National Assembly
• 1920–1925 Member of the Senate (partially Chairman of the Senate)
• 1919 Minister of Finance in the government of Vlastimil Tusar I

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Životopisy ministrů 1918 - 2004 (part 5), in: Author collective: Historie Ministerstva financí 1918 - 2004 , compilation of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, online at: mfcr.cz / ...
2. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Turnovský: Cyril Horáček , in: akademický bulletin 05/1998, Journal of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, online at: abicko.avcr.cz/
3. ↑ Josef Gruber: Prof. Dr. Cyril Horáček, K šedesátým narozeninám , in: Obzor národohospodářský (1922), online at: bibliothecaeconomica.cz / ...

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Cyril Horáček in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic