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鈥淭omas Masaryk, a Scholar and a Statesman: Philosophical Background of His Political Views鈥

Full Biography

Zden臎k V. David, Librarian Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since February 2002, was born in Blatn谩, Czech Republic, in 1931. After coming to the United States in September 1947, he studied at the Putney School in Vermont in 1947鈥48, then at Wesleyan University (politics and philosophy, B.A. 1952), and did graduate work at Harvard (Russian area studies, M.A. 1954; history, Ph.D. 1960). He taught historiography, and Russian and East European history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1960 to 1965. From 1966 to 1974, he served as Slavic bibliographer and history lecturer in Russian and East European history at Princeton University, and from 1974 to 2002 as Librarian at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

His book, Realism, Tolerance, Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening: Legacies of the Bohemian Reformation (Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) was published in 2010. A previous book, Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists鈥 Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) appeared in 2003. A Czech translation is now under preparation. With the late Robert Kann he is coauthor of the Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526鈥1918 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984). He compiled the Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History for 1978鈥82 (with Robert Strassfeld), and for 1983鈥87 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1984-89). He edited the Scholars鈥 Guides to Washington, D.C. series (15 vols. 1977鈥1995).

His journal articles have appeared in Austrian History YearbookBohemiaBohemian Reformation and Religious PracticeCarl Beck PapersChurch HistoryCesk媒 casopis historick媒Communio ViatorumEEPS: East European Politics and SocietiesEast European Jewish AffairsFilosofick媒 casopisFolia Historica BohemicaJournal of Ecclesiastical HistoryKosmasSbornik Narodn铆ho muzeaSixteenth Century JournalSlavic Review, and Slavonic and East European Review. David is currently conducting research on the philosophical and religious background of Thomas G. Masaryk鈥檚 politics.

In the early 1990s, David joined David R. Holeton and Vil茅m Herold in organizing symposia on 鈥淭he Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice,鈥 six of which were held during the World Congresses of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (Prague 1994, Brno l996, Bratislava 1998, Washington 2000, Plzen, 2002, Olomouc 2004), and six additional ones under the auspices of the Philosophy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010). He co-edited seven volumes of the symposia papers that have appeared in 1996-2009. In November 2002, he was invited to address the Historical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences on the subject of the Bohemian Reformation. He has served as a Vice-President of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, as its Secretary General, and as a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Czechoslovak Studies Association (formerly, Czechoslovak Studies Conference). He received the Franti拧ek Palack媒 Honorary Medal for Merit in Historical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 2009, and the Prize of the Prague Chapter of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Major Publications

  • Realism, Tolerance, Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening: Legacies of the Bohemian Reformation. Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2010. 413 p.
  • "Universalist Aspirations of the Utraquist Church," The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, Vol. 7, published as Filosofick媒 casopis: Supplementum 1(2009), 194-212.
  • "Masaryk and Hegel within the Context of the Austrian Philosophical Tradition," Selected Papers from the Twenty-Fourth World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences, 2 vols., 沤ilina, Slovakia: University of 沤ilina, [2010], 1:15-38.
  • "Masaryk's Attitude Toward National Languages," in Heiz Duchhardt, Hlav谩cek, Winfried Eberhard, and others, eds., Bruncwik und die Nymphe. Die 脺berlegungen zur kulturellen und politischen Identit盲t Europas, Europaena Pragensia 2. Prague: Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and Filosofia Publishers, 2010, 120-134.
  • "Masaryk on the Psychological and Philosophical Causes of World War I," Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Fall 2010), 1-21.

Previous Terms

January 31,2002 - January 31, 2004 "Philosophical Outlook of Tomas G. Masaryk as a Background of His Politics" February 1, 2004 - January 31, 2008