Zdeněk Beneš

Zdeněk Beneš (born September 5, 1952 in Chomutov ) is a Czech historian.

Life

After his apprenticeship as an offset printer and A-levels in 1972, he began studying history and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague , which he completed with his thesis on the subject of methodological problems of Czech humanistic histography 1547–1600 . In 1980 he received his doctorate in philosophy. From 1984 to 1988 he worked as a scientific aspirant at the university. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer and since 2002 he has been a professor of Czech history.

Beneš participates in numerous commissions and bodies, including the German-Czech Historical Commission , the editorial board of the Masaryk Collection. He is the chairman of the Czech-German Commission on History in Schools, the editorial board of Pedagogika magazine and the Matice Moravská magazine , member of the doctoral council of the Institute for International Studies, the editorial board of the Czech Historical Magazine and others.

Fonts (selection)

• Historický text a historická skutečnost. Study o principech českého humanistického dějepisectví. Prague 1993.
• Historický text a historická kultura. Prague 1995.
• I president už toho má plné zuby, aneb, Od blbé nálady k mafii po česku. Prague 2002.
• ed. with Václav Kural: understanding history. The Development of German-Czech Relations in the Bohemian Lands 1848–1948. Prague 2002.
• Dějiny Nové Paky I. Nová Paka 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Zdeněk Beneš in the catalog of the German National Library