Dušan Třeštík, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dušan Třeštík

Czech historian and science writer

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1933

Place of Birth: Sobědruhy, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 23-Aug-2007

Profession: writer, historian

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Dušan Treštík (1 August 1933 – 23 August 2007) was a Czech historian.
He specialized in medieval history (Dark Ages (500–1000)) of the Czech lands and theory of history. Treštík was born in 1933 in Sobedruhy, now a part of the city of Teplice.
He studied history at the Charles University from 1951 to 1956 where his tutor was František Graus.
After two years at the Charles University, since 1958 he worked in the Historic Institute of the Academy of Science and Arts.
In his later years he was prominent in its Centre of Medievial Studies.
In 1959 he married historian Barbara Krzemienska and in 1968 he studied in West Germany and France.
Treštík was a stark defender of veracity Kristián's legend.
As a theorist of history he criticised the neopositivist approach of the mainstream Czech history scholarship and its icon Josef Pekar.
He labeled it as faktopis. Since 1989 he also published a lot of political texts (collected as Ceši.
Jejich národ, stát, dejiny a pravdy v transformaci, 1999), especially in Lidové Noviny (from 1993 to 1996 he was a member of its editorial board) and Mladá Fronta Dnes.
He criticised Sudeten Germans, but he joined Impuls 99 despite being close to Václav Klaus.
After 9/11 Treštík was sceptical towards neoconservative politics and the invasion of Iraq. He died in Prague in 2007.