Abstract
The teacher and student relationship between the two Church history professors and members of both ČCE and CČSH, Miloslav Kaňák (1917-1985) and František Michálek Bartoš (1889-1972), transcended the bounds of their different confessional memberships. After completing his high school in Klatov, M.
Kaňák studied theology at HČEBF and history at FF UK and the State Archival Institute. He could only finish his studies after the end of the Second World War.
In the year 1946 he successfully obtained his doctorate under professor Bartoš. Between 1947 and 1949 he studied at the Methodist Drew Theological Seminary as part of the Drew University in Madison.
After returning to his homeland he successfully habilitated his work on catholic modernism under professor Bartoš at HČEBF. After the formation of the Hussite Czechoslovak Theological Faculty (HČBF) that followed its division from HČEBF, Kaňák was made into a professor of both Czech and universal church history.
Even after the separation from HČEBF he remained in contact with his teacher in both professional and personal capacity, right to his death in 1972.