Renowned academic Josef Jařab dies at 85

The first post-1989 rector of Palacký University in Olomouc, Josef Jařab, has died at the age of 85. Mr. Jařab was appointed in 1990 and remained in the post until 1997. He was an expert on US and UK literature and renowned translator and was a guest lecturer at Harvard University shortly before the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.

He was later a member of the Czech Senate, serving in the upper chamber for eight years.