Peroutka, Ferdinand, 1895-1978

Biographical/Historical Note

• 6 February 1895: Born, Prague, Austro-Hungary
• 1919 - 1923 : Editor, the daily Tribuna
• 1924 - 1939 : Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, the weekly Přítomnost (founded with support from President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and with Karel Čapek and other prominent writers as regular contributors) Editor, the daily Lidové noviny
• 1925: Author, Boje o dnešek
• 1933 - 1938 : Author, Budování státu, a multiple-volume monograph
• 1939 - 1945 : Imprisoned, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps
• 1945 - 1946 : Member, Czechoslovak National Assembly
• 1945 - 1948 : Editor, the daily Svobodné noviny
• 1946 - 1948 : Editor-in-Chief, the weekly Dnešek
• 1947: Author, Tak nebo tak
• 1948: Author, Oblak a valčík: kolektivní drama o dvanácti obrazech Emigrated to London, Great Britain; published in émigré periodicals throughout his career (Hlas domova, Americké listy, České slovo, and others)
• 1949: Author, Byl Edvard Beneš vinen?
• 1950: Moved to New York, USA
• Circa 1950 - 1957 : Member, Rada svobodného Československa (The Council of Free Czechoslovakia)
• 1950 - 1964 : Editor-in-Chief, Radio Free Europe Czechoslovak Desk
• 1951 - 1977 : Author, weekly broadcast addresses in Radio Free Europe (published as a three-volume monograph Mluví k vám Ferdinand Peroutka: rozhlasové komentáře rádia Svobodná Evropa, 2003-2006)
• 1955: Married Slávka Fenclová
• 1959: Author, Democratic Manifesto
• 1976: Author, Oblak a valčík: román
• 20 April 1978: Died, New York

From the guide to the Ferdinand Peroutka papers, 1935-1978, 1935-1978, (Hoover Institution Archives)