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Title: Petr Den papers
Date (inclusive): 1933-1977
Collection Number: 83012
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Czech
Physical Description:
28 microfilm reels
(2.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, radio transcripts, serial issues, and other printed matter relating to Czechoslovak émigré affairs,
Czechoslovak culture, and Western radio broadcasting to Czechoslovakia.
Creator:
Den, Petr
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.
[Identification of item], Petr Den papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Pseudonym of Ladislav Radimský: Czechoslovak diplomat, émigré writer in the United States, editor,
Perspektivy, 1961 to 1963, and
Proměny, 1964 to 1970.
| 1970 September 9 | Died, New York, USA |
| 1961-1963 | Editor of Perspektivy, a cultural revue published in New York |
| 1959-1969 | Broadcast for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America |
| 1964-1970 | Editor and founder of the Czech language literary quarterly, Proměny, published in New York City by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America |
| 1948-1958 | Remained a member of the U.N. Secretariat |
| 1948 | After the communist coup d'etat resigned from his diplomatic post |
| 1946 May-1948 February | Deputy chief delegate of Czechoslovakia at the United Nations in New York, later Minister Plenipotentiary |
| 1945 September | Appointed by Minister Jan Masaryk as member of the Preparatory Commission for the United Nations in London |
| 1945 May | Rejoined the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry |
| 1921 January | Received his law degree from Charles University, Prague |
| 1932 | Won first prize in the Melantrich essay competition under the pen name of Petr Den |
| 1920 November-1939 | Joined Foreign Ministry of the Czechoslovak Republic. Served in diplomatic posts at Bucharest, Berlin, and Bern, and participated in international conferences at Geneva, Paris, and London as a member of the Czechoslovak delegations |
| 1898 April 3 | Born in Kolín, Czechoslovakia |
| 1939 | After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia resigned from the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry |
| 1992 | Posthumously awarded Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order |
| 1970 | Posthumously awarded honorary membership in the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, radio transcripts, serial issues, and other printed matter relating to Czechoslovak émigré affairs,
Czechoslovak culture, and Western radio broadcasting to Czechoslovakia.
Petr Den is a pseudonym of Ladislav Radimský.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Czechoslovakia -- Emigration and immigration
Radio broadcasting -- Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia -- Civilization