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Jan Patočka

Czech essayist and philosopher (1907-1977) · Czechia · Writers · Died at 69

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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink.

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Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class
Honorary Doctor of the RWTH Aachen University
Participant in the Resistance and Resistance Against Communism
Čestná medaile T. G. Masaryka

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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In 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.

Country
Czechia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1907 to 1977 · aged 69

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