Vladimír Karbusický, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vladimír Karbusický

Czech historian, musicologist, educator and sociologist

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: Velim, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 23-May-2002

Profession: pedagogue, sociologist, musicologist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vladimír Karbusický

  • Vladimír Karbusický (9 April 1925, in Velim – 23 May 2002, in Hamburg) was a Czech musicologist and folklorist.During World War II, he was abducted by the Germans for forced labor in Hamburg.
  • After returning to Prague, he worked for the Ethnographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
  • He collected Jewish jokes, but was prevented from publishing them due to their often anti-authoritarian qualities which threatened the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
  • After emigrating to West Germany in 1969, he published a book, Jewish Anecdotes from Prague, in which he collected jokes about Prague's Jewish population, which had nearly been wiped out during the Holocaust.

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