Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica (Oct 2017)

Václav Marek

  • Bohumila Mouchová,
  • Eva Kuťáková

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2017.9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2017, no. 2
pp. 9 – 11

Abstract

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Associate Professor Vaclav Marek is one of the Czech Republic ’ s leading expertscon ancient (esp. Roman) history. However, he reached his destination field of study byca rather indirect route. After finishing his schooling in Trhove Sviny, in South Bohemia,cMarek started reading Latin and Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts at Charles Universitycin 1958, but from the very beginning his interests lay in ancient history, namelycthat of Ancient Greece. It was only natural that he chose a topic from Ancient Greekchistory for his thesis. After graduating in 1963, he embarked on the path to an academicccareer as an associate lecturer. Marek obtained his lower-level doctorate (PhDr.) in 1968cand in 1984 was awarded a higher-level doctoral degree (CSc.) in history. In 1988, he wascappointed as an Associate Professor in Ancient History.