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Prof. Miroslav Kusý

Miroslav Kusy died

14. 2. 2019 | 1342 visits
At the age of 87 Miroslav Kusý - the political scientist and former Rector of Comenius University - died. He was one of the signatories of Charta 77, the founder of the Slovak Helsinki Committee, the Milan Šimeček Foundation and the Chairman of the UNESCO Commission on Human Rights in Slovakia.
Miroslav Kusý was born on December 1, 1931 in Bratislava. He graduated from the Charles University Philosophy Faculty in Prague (1954). Then he returned to Bratislava, where he worked at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, first as an assistant professor, then an associate professor and finally between 1967 and 1970 as a professor of Marxist philosophy. After his expulsion from the Communist Party of Slovakia, he forbade his teaching in 1970. For his activity during the Prague Spring of 1968 he persecuted and imprisoned him during the period of normalization. In 1977, as one of the first signatories to Charta 77, he became a participant in the dissident movement. In August 1989, he was imprisoned in Bratislava. The process against members of Bratislava Group Five ended demonstrations during a grueling revolution. After the fall of Communism, Miroslav Kusý was the founder and until 1998 the head of the Department of Political Science of the Charles University, as well as the founder of the UNESCO Center for Human Rights Education. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Rector of the UK in Bratislava. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as the Cencellor President of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (ČSFR) Václav Havel. M. Kusý is the author of many philosophical and political scientific monographs and articles in Czechoslovak and foreign journals.