Benda, Vaclav

Benda, Vaclav
▪ 2000

      Czech philosopher, mathematician, writer, and politician who was a prominent member of the dissident group Charter 77, which played a leading role in the Velvet Revolution, a popular upheaval that ended communist control of Czechoslovakia in late 1989; a conservative Catholic, he refused to join the Communist Party in the early 1970s, a decision that derailed his plans for an academic career. He served as a Charter 77 spokesman both before and after his imprisonment from 1979 to 1983 on charges of subverting the state; after 1989 he headed an institute investigating crimes of the communist regime. Benda was elected to the upper house of the Czech parliament in 1996 (b. Aug. 8, 1946, Prague, Czech. [now Czech Rep.]—d. June 1, 1999, Prague).

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