User:Talmidavi/Vladimír Juřík

Vladimír Juřík (1925 Vsetín - 1992 Prague) was a Czech university lecturer, associate professor of Charles University and a fighter against fascism.

Life
He was born in 1925 in Vsetin in a poor family. His grandfather František Juřík fell on the Eastern Front in the First World War. From 1935 he studied at the Masaryk Gymnasium in Vsetín, together with Erich Kulka.

His older brother was already in college in 1939 and during the raid on 17 November 1939 he was arrested and dragged to KT Sachsenhausen. That is why Juřík actively participated in the resistance as a guerrilla in Wallachia.

He became a member of the resistance group "Jan Zizka", a subgroup "Jonas". During the resistance activities he stayed in the Wallachian Carpathians between 1944–1945, where he took part in combat and sabotage activities, such as ambushing the Wehrmacht supply columns or gunfights with German patrolmen.

In one of the last actions of the war, his group attacked the SS patrol. Juřík escaped as the only one from the group alive, he managed to hide the backpack and gun into the bushes and roll down from the hill Jablonova Vsetinem. Although the Germans fired at him, fortunately did not hit him. Juří later hid in safety. At the beginning of May 1945, Vsetín was liberated by the Red Army.

After the war he moved to Prague, where he first studied medicine, but then transferred to the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, where he also graduated. He completed a study stay in Paris.

Later he returned to Czechoslovakia and taught and taught at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Until the fall of the Communist regime, he could earn his livelihood only with second class labor.

In 1968 he was offered an offer from the French Sorbonne to work as a visiting professor, which he refused because of his family and returned to the Communist Czechoslovakia.

He was rehabilitated in 1990. He briefly taught at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, but bullying by the Communist regime had a negative impact on his health, which was already disturbed during the time of Juřík's guerrillas, when they often operated on the Wallachian-Slovak border during winter 1944– 1945 in solid frosts, snow and wind in totally insufficient clothing and equipment.

Vladimír Juřík is considered the founder of the field of culturology in the Czech Republic. [2]

Externí odkazy

 * http://www.prijmeni.cz/osobnost/18153/vladimir_jurik
 * http://www.ic-vsetin.cz/data_12/soubory/15.pdf
 * http://sites.ff.cuni.cz/uisk/wp-content/uploads/sites/62/2016/01/Z-pramen%C5%AF-k-d%C4%9Bjin%C3%A1m-knihovnictv%C3%AD-v-Archivu-Univerzity-Karlovy-v-Praze_Khel.pdf
 * https://fsv.cuni.cz/fakulta/historie-fsv-uk