Soupis prací prof. JUDr. Karla Engliše

Soupis prací prof. JUDr. Karla Engliše

Ladislav A. FÜRST

Facsimile of the manuscript containing an analysis of the work and a list of the scholarly writings of Karel Engliš.
In 1977 it was prepared by Associate Professor Ladislav A. Fürst. In eight chapters, he compiled a bibliography of Engliš’s extensive oeuvre. The list is also valuable in that it includes an overview of unpublished manuscripts.

Ladislav A. FÜRST
(September 1, 1898, Opava – August 9, 1987, Prague)
The son of Josef Fürst, a teacher and principal of the Czech grammar school in Opava. After graduating from the Opava grammar school, he entered the Czechoslovak army, where he gradually rose to the rank of major of the General Staff. In 1928 he married Věra Englišová in Hrabyně, the daughter of Finance Minister Karel Engliš. The marriage remained childless. In the 1930s Fürst left the army and became procurator and later director of the Mining and Metallurgical Company. At the same time, he earned the title of docent at the Mining Academy in Příbram.

In the interwar period, he was active as a functionary in the organizational structures of Czechoslovak figure skating. In 1926 he was elected chairman of the Skating Association of the Czechoslovak Republic. He also headed the Skating Union of the Czechoslovak Republic (founded 1934), which brought together the Skating Association of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Eislaufverband in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik in Opava. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Skating Association in 1946, he was elected its chairman. In 1935 he became the first Czechoslovak to join the International Skating Union’s committee, serving as its vice-president from 1946 to 1949.

After the Second World War, he worked in the Czechoslovak Paper and Cellulose Works as deputy general director. Following the Communist takeover, he faced persecution by the authorities, went into hiding, and eventually attempted to leave Czechoslovakia with his wife. He was arrested while crossing the border and sentenced to thirteen years of hard imprisonment. At first he was held in Bory prison in Plzeň, and later forced to work in brown coal and uranium mines. He was subsequently transferred to the Vítkovice ironworks, where he fell ill with tuberculosis. In 1954 he was released for health reasons.

For the rest of his life, he organized and promoted the work of his father-in-law both at home and abroad. He also pursued his own scholarly work in the fields of economics and legal philosophy, building on Engliš’s ideas (e.g. The Influence of Politics and Political Systems on the Conduct of War, in: Vojenské rozhledy 11, 1930, no. 4, pp. 289–292; Government Price Policy and Coal, in: Hospodářská politika 7, 1933, no. 22; Karel Engliš. Kant’s Apriorism and the Order of Thought, in: Filosofický časopis 15, 1967, no. 4, pp. 531–543). His post-war writings survived in manuscripts or typescripts, which are now deposited in the Archives of the National Museum.

Authors of the entry: Martin Hlaváč and Zdeněk Doskočil, source:
https://biography.hiu.cas.cz/pageid/138556