Central European historian Jiří Pernes passes away

On Wednesday night, the historian from Brno, Jiří Pernes, passed away at the age of 76. He had long focused on the modern and contemporary history of central Europe, Czechoslovakia, and especially Moravia. His work covered topics such as the late period of the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungary, as well as notable figures from the Habsburg family. He also concentrated on the history of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pernes spent much of his life working at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and briefly served as the director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. He was also a university lecturer. In the final years of his life, he worked as an adjunct professor at the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University.