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Susta, Josef
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- Šusta, Josef
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1874-1945
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Josef Šusta was a Czech historian, author, and politician. He studied in Prague with medieval historian Jaroslav Golla, who is often considered the father of Czech positivist historical school, then at the Austrian Institute of Historical Research in Vienna, and in Italy at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome and in the Vatican Archives. Šusta was one of the first historians to write on Czech national history and to reconsider its role in the economic and social history of the Bohemia. He was also an expert on Catholic religious history. Between 1920 and 1921 Šusta was Minister of Education in Czechoslovakia.
Šusta was Vice-President of the Czech Committee of intellectual cooperation, and succeeded Hendrik Antoon Lorentz as President of the ICIC in 1928. He maintained this position until 1938. Šusta also served as President of the Czech Committee of intellectual cooperation. He died in 1945 in Prague.
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Created by Marie Caillot 25/10/2011. English translation by Jan Stöckmann 11-08-2015.
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- UNESCO Archives, Archival Group 1 : IICI, "Bulletin de la Section d’Information et de Documentation", juin 1928, p. 1-2.
- UNESCO Archives, Archival Group 1 : CICI/461. Organisation de Coopération intellectuelle, "Les Commissions nationales de Coopération intellectuelle", Genève 1937, "Tchécoslovaquie", p. 124-126.
- UNESCO Archives, Archival Group 1: boîte 6. IICI. A. I. 49. Correspondance avec M. Joseph Susta, membre de la CICI. (1930-1931), 7 pièces.
- Article Wikipédia "Josef Šusta ". Retrieved from: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_%C5%A0usta Accessed 24 October 2011.
- Bernard, M. "Les Archives du royaume de Bohême et le nationalisme tchèque au XIXe siècle" in Delmas, B. Nougaret, C. (dir.) (2004). Archives et nations dans l'Europe du XIXème siècle : actes du colloque Paris 27-28 avril 2001. Paris : Ecole nationale des chartes. P. 58.
- Renoliet, J.-J. (1999). L'UNESCO oubliée. La Société des Nations et la coopération intellectuelle (1919-1946). Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne. P. 184, 282.