Paměti - Kdo sloužíš vlasti, odměny nečekej – Engliš Karel (2022)

The book presents previously unpublished manuscripts of memoirs – the autobiography of Karel Engliš (1880 Hrabyně – 1961 Hrabyně). It is published as the 4th volume of the Masaryk University editorial series "The Works of Karel Engliš" in the edition "Tribute to Personalities" in 2022 in collaboration with the Masaryk Institute and the Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The book is a valuable source of information and documentation for historians, economists, philosophers, and other researchers, offering Engliš's original perspective on his academic, political, and scientific activities. The presented "Memoirs" complete the commemorative and documentary editorial series from the pen of Karel Engliš, which he worked on and wrote for decades. He often hid the manuscripts from confiscation and destruction. The publication of this work thus settles a significant debt to this extraordinary personality. Karel Engliš began writing his memoirs in 1925, when he was 45 years old, and he worked on them intermittently until the end of his life in 1961. This resulted in several coherent thematic collections. Therefore, it is not a classic biography. However, the book is unique and special. It allows us to glimpse the topics Engliš was concerned with at the time, what he deemed necessary to comment on and record. It provides the reader with the opportunity to recognize Engliš's keen observational talent and extraordinary memory. S...