Josef Hromádka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Hromádka

Czech philosopher, religion writer, professor, publicist, theologist and university educator

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1889

Place of Birth: Hodslavice, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1969

Profession: writer, parson, pedagogue, theologian, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Josef Lukl Hromádka (8 June 1889 Hotzendorf - 26 December 1969, 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.