Josef Lukl Hromádka is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Josef Lukl Hromádka as Czech philosopher, religion writer, professor, publicist, theologist and university educator.
Josef Lukl Hromádka was born at Hodslavice in 1889. His recorded nationality is Czech Republic. He studied at Faculty of Protestant theology of University of Vienna and Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Princeton Theological Seminary and Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.
The recorded fields of work are protestant theology, systematic theology and neo-orthodoxy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Lenin Peace Prize (1958), Order of February 25, Order of the Republic (1959) and Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia) (1958).
That the work was done from Czech Republic matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Josef Lukl Hromádka died in 1969, aged 80. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Lenin Peace Prize — 1958
- Order of February 25
- Order of the Republic — 1959
- Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia) — 1958
- Held posts at Princeton Theological Seminary and Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
- Fields: Protestant theology, systematic theology and neo-orthodoxy
