Jan Patočka

Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.

1 June 1907

Born on the same birth date (1 June 1907): Frank Whittle

Born on the same birth day (1 June): Carlos Zambrano • Edmund Ignatius Rice • Hans Vogt (linguist) • James H. Billington • John Hunt Morgan • John Huston (golfer) • Johnny Berry • Maarten van Heemskerck • Mathias Rust • Michael Rasmussen (cyclist) • Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury • Tom Gorman (rugby league) • Zazie Beetz

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