Jiří Pernes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jiří Pernes

Czech historian, politician and university educator

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1948

Place of Birth: Svitavy, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Profession: politician, historian, pedagogue

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jirí Pernes (4 July 1948, Svitavy) is a Czech historian. Between 1984-1990 he was director of the Historical Museum in Slavkov u Brna (Austerlitz), then between 1990-1992 he was director of the Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno.
In 2011 he directed the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
Jirí Pernes held lectures at the Masaryk University in Brno and at the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem.Nowadays he works in the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Science in Brno.
He wrote many books and papers about Moravian, Czech and Czechoslovak history in 19th and 20th centuries. In 2010 he was dismissed from his position as director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes after allegations he had plagiarized large portions of his 1997 book about Emanuel Moravec from another person's doctoral dissertation.
Pernes' said he had never knowingly copied the work of others.