Jan Patočka

✶June 1, 1907

†March 13, 1977

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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied at Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. At Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.

Czech essayist and philosopher (1907-1977)

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