biography
| name: |
Hromadka, Josef Luki
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pronunciation:
[hromadka]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1969)
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Hodslavice, E Czech Republic. He studied at Basel, Heidelberg, Vienna, Prague, and at the United Free Church College, Aberdeen, and was theological professor at Prague (1920–39) and at Princeton Theological Seminary (1939–47). He returned to Czechoslovakia and became dean of the Comenius faculty, Prague, in 1950. Active in the World Council of Churches from its inception, he contributed much to Christian–Marxist dialogue, and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1958. |
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