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Unknown Moments from the Life of the Dean František Smetánka

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2009

Abstract

The author focuses on the life of professor František Smetánka after 1945. Smetánka was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Hradec Králové from 1946-1948 and emigrated to Great Britain after the communist revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1948.

The article is based on work with archived texts and on an interview with Dr. B.

R. Bradbrook, Smetánka´s niece.

The article underlines Smetánka´s organization and personal qualities.