Josef Lukl Hromádka
Czech philosopher, religion writer, professor, publicist, theologist and university educator
About Josef Lukl Hromádka
Lived 1889 – 1969 (aged 80). Josef Lukl Hromádka was a Czech theologian, pedagogue, writer, university teacher, parson and military chaplain.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-10342-0001, Prof. Hromatka besucht CDU-Vorstand
Josef Lukl Hromádka (8 June 1889 in Hodslavice – 26 December 1969 in Prague) was a Czech Protestant theologian. He was a founder of the Christian Peace Conference.
Born into a Lutheran peasant family in a village in Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hromádka studied theology in Vienna, Basel and Heidelberg, as well as in Aberdeen. He was a supporter of and member from its foundation in 1918 of the unified Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.
In 1939 Hromádka fled the Nazis into exile, taking up a post at Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States. He returned to Prague in 1947 to resume his post at the Comenius theological faculty.
A founder of the Christian Peace Conference, he called the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia 'the greatest tragedy of my life'. He left the movement in November 1968.
Literature http://journals.ptsem.edu/id/PSB1999201/dmd008 Tribute by Jan Milic Lochmann, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1999
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Czech philosopher, religion writer, professor, publicist, theologist and university educator
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Josef Lukl Hromádka was born on 8 June 1889 in Hodslavice.
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Josef Lukl Hromádka died on 26 December 1969 in Prague.
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Josef Lukl Hromádka was a theologian, pedagogue, writer, university teacher, parson and military chaplain.
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Josef Lukl Hromádka was Czech.
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