Necrologue of Květa Kořalková












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            * Jiří Kořalka
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            KVĚTA KOŘALKOVÁ, May 30, 1930 - December 24, 2008



            The historic work of Květa Kořalková was influenced by her family origin in a workers' env

            Northern Bohemia. Experiences from her childhood in a family of an often-unemployed worker
            livelihood was provided by her mother, a factory worker, are projected - along with in-dep
            from archival and printed sources - in her first book Hnutí nezaměstnaných v Československ

            1929-1933 [Movement of Unemployed in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1929 to 1933] (Prague: Pr
            After the end of her university studies in 1954 she took active part as an assistant in th

            Faculty of Charles University in Prague in research of the way of life and public activiti
            Northwestern Bohemia. Her lectures on the social and political development of Central Euro
            of the Soviet bloc after World War II, included in the program of the Faculty in the fall 

            earned unexpected relevance as a consequence of the political shake-up in Poland (May 1956
            (October 1956), so many times more students than were enrolled attended her lectures.



            This experience led the evaluating committee of the Faculty at the beginning of 1958 to th
            although Květa Kořalková was professionally first-rate, politically she was not suitable f

            students. Therefore she involuntarily left the Philosophical Faculty and continued her wor
            assistant at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Prague. The result 
            80-page internationally recognized study Vytváření systému dvoustranných spojeneckých smlu

            socialistickými zeměmi (1943-1949) [Creation of a System of Bilateral Allied Agreements am
            Socialist Lands 1943-1949] (Prague: Rozpravy ČSAV 1966), based mainly on materials of the 
            Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of articles in journals and yearbooks.



            In March 1970 Květa Kořalková, together with the majority of the employees of the Institut

            International Politics and Economics, was dismissed from her job. She did not find employm
            field of history and, until her retirement in the autumn of 1987, she earned her living as
            the hair-dressing communal enterprise. She tried from then on to work on social historical

            cooperation with the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore Studies of the Academy of Scie
            professional associations. She put together the history of the professional association in
            employed under the title Třicet let Odborového svazu pracovníků místního hospodářství [Thi

            the Professional Association of Workers of the Local Economy] (Prague 1977); three years l
            chief compiler of the historical survey Třicet let místního hospodářství [Thirty Years of 
            (Prague: Práce 1980), even if she could not be credited as the author. She paid a lot of a

            the mass movements of the population after 1945, mainly the re-emigration of Czech emigran
            after 1989 could she publish the results of her research, which had remained in manuscript
            study "Czechoslovak and Polish re-emigration after World War II. An attempt at ascertainin

            and different characteristics" (Slezský sborník 88, 1990). In cooperation with her husband
            1993-1995 she participated in extensive research on the way of life and public activities 
            in Rhineland and Westphalia (yearbook Češi v cizině 10, 1998). Through twenty years of col

            the Hussite Museum in Tábor, she published a number of serious articles in the yearbooks T
            and Husitský Tábor, e.g., about demonstrations in Tábor 1938-1939 or changes of religious 
            activities of all churches in the region after 1918.


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