Václav Chaloupecký


Václav Chaloupecký was a Czech historian, a student of prominent Czech historian Josef Pekař and the main representative of historians in mid-war Slovakia.

Life

He had studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Then he had worked as an archivist and librarian in Roudnice nad Labem. In 1919, he became a state inspector of Slovak archives and libraries. In the same time, he was also a docent and professor of the Czechoslovak history at Comenius University. He held several academic positions e.g. dean and vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, rector and vice-rector of the university. In 1939 he became an extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Arts in Prague where he had lectured until 1951. A member of the Scholastic Society of Šafárik.

Work