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Prof. PhDr. et Dr.Sc. Karel Mácha, born on January 2, 1931, in Dírná, Czechoslovakia, philosopher, sociologist, writer, holder of >Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande< (Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon) (2007) and >Großer Literaturpreis< (Grand Prize in Literature) from Exil-P.E.N.-Club-International (2001), etc.

Studies in politology (Marxian Theory), modern history (social ideas) and philosophy (modern history of philosophy) at the >Universitas Carolina Pragensis<, Prague, (Seminary of Prof.Dr.Milan Machovec); studies in sociology (modern history of social ideas) and anthropology (the British social anthropology; the American culture anthropology; the French l¿anthropologie structurelle) at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy, l954-57; >Csc.<, l958). Appointed at the same >Institute of Philosophy< as scientist (l957 >Fellow<, l963 >Senior Fellow<). Habilitation at the >Universitas Purkyniana Brunensis< (Brno, l962). Appointed to Professor of Philosophy at the Charles University (Faculty of Social Sciences), l966; >DrSc.<, (>Doctor Scientiarum<, l968). Elected as >Dean of Faculty< in the first free academic election (June 1969). In autumn l969 he resigned his academic appointments and was expelled from the university for political reasons; until his emigration private scientist. 1978 exiled; invited as Visiting Professor to the >Universitas Ludovico-Maximilianea< in Munich (>Institute of Christian Philosophy<, Prof. D.Dr. Eugen Biser). 1987-88 invited as Visiting Professor to the >Polytechnic University< (>Philosophy and Technology Studies Center<, Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher) in New York. - Since l988 appointed as Professor of Social Philosophy at the >Gustav-Siewerth-Academy. Graduate School< (Prof. Dr. Alma von Stockhausen, Southern Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg). l990 rehabilitated (by President Václav Havel) as Professor of Philosophy at the Charles University, Prague.