Arnošt Klíma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arnošt Klíma

Czech historian

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1916

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

Date of Death: 04-Jan-2000

Profession: historian, translator, university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Arnošt Klíma, PhDr., DrSc.
(1 March 1916, Klimkovice – 4 January 2000, Prague), was a historian, most noted for his work on the economic and social history of the Czech-speaking region in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
He was a member correspondent of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and professor of the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.
He also translated extensively from German.
He is particularly noted in Anglophone scholarship for his contribution to the Brenner Debate on the origins of capitalism.