Odešel velký historik a učitel prof. PhDr. Robert Kvaček, CSc.
Professor Robert Kvaček, Great Historian and Teacher

Summary/Abstract: The obituary commemorates the doyen and “guru” of modern Czech historiography, Professor Robert Kvaček, who was born on 5 July 1932 in Dvorce u Jičína and passed away on 27 April 2024 in Lomnice nad Popelkou. In the 1950s, he studied history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. In 1956 he joined the Department of Czechoslovak History and Archival Studies as an assistant and continued to teach there until late in life; from 1968 as an associate professor, from 1990 as a professor, and later as professor emeritus. He gained the reputation of a charismatic and highly regarded lecturer, attracting thousands of listeners from across various academic fields. He distinguished himself in the field of European diplomatic history in the interwar period and during the Second World War, gradually expanding his scope to include the post-war Czechoslovak “Third” Republic and the First World War. In addition to numerous monographs and studies, his "Diplomaté a ti druzí: K dějinám diplomacie za 2. světové války" [Diplomats and the Others: Towards a History of Diplomacy during the Second World War] (1988) stands out. He was also the author of various popularization works and several excellent text books on Czech and Czechoslovak history from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. Robert Kvaček was a scholarly and pedagogical celebrity whose influence extended far beyond academia, but he was also a wise and kind man.

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