Ladislav Hejdánek

Ladislav Hejdánek (10 May 1927 – 28 April 2020) was a Czech philosopher and a proponent of Charter 77. He was born in Prague and graduated from the Charles University in Prague.[1] In 1952 he attained a degree in philosophy with his dissertation "Truth and its ontological premises". From 1956 to 1968 he worked at the Prague Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Then he took a position at the Institute for Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, but was expelled in 1971.

Ladislav Hejdánek
Born(1927-05-10)10 May 1927
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died28 April 2020(2020-04-28) (aged 92)
Prague, Czech Republic
Main interests
philosophy

In 1985, Hejdánek established the journal Reflexe. Časopis pro filosofii a teologii. In 1990, he was habilitated at the Charles University in Prague, and two years later became a professor at that university. He later became chairman of the Unity of Philosophy and then Chairman of the Emanuel Rádl Foundation.[2]

Hejdánek died on 28 April 2020 at the age of 92.[3]

References
  1. Ladislav Hejdanek: 90 years of hypercritical philosopher
  2. Ladislav HEJDÁNEK
  3. Zemřel profesor Hejdánek, signatář a mluvčí Charty 77 (in Czech)


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