Wikipedia, 2021-02-16
Information trouvée : Jan Sokol (18 April 1936 – 16 February 2021) was a Czech philosopher, dissident, politician
and translator. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 1998
under Prime Minister Josef Tošovský. From 1990 to 1992 he was Member of Parliament
for Prague. From 2000 to 2007 he served as the first dean of the Faculty of Humanities
at Charles University in Prague. Sokol ran for President of the Czech Republic in
the 2003 election but lost to Václav Klaus. Born in Prague in a Catholic family, he
was not allowed to study and worked as a goldsmith, precision mechanic and software
developer. Sokol studied mathematics in evening courses, translated numerous books
on philosophy and religion to Czech
Čas a rytmus / Jan Sokol, 2004