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Václav Klaus

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Václav Klaus

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Also known as Vaclav Klaus

President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013

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Václav Klaus is a male politician, economist, and teacher born in Prague in 1941. He served as Prime Minister and President of the Czech Republic. His political career included membership in the Civic Forum and the Civic Democratic Party. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Mont Pelerin Society.

Klaus studied at the Prague University of Economics and Business and Cornell University. He held academic positions as a professor and engineer, earning a Candidate of Sciences degree and an honorary doctorate. He also worked as a teacher at the Prague University of Economics and Business. His religious affiliation is with the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. He speaks Czech, English, and Italian.

He is the spouse of Livia Klausová and father to Václav Klaus Jr. His notable works include *Marxova politická ekonomie a ekonomická teorie*, *Česko-německá deklarace*, and *Rozum proti kovidové panice*. He has received the Order of the White Eagle, the Pushkin Medal, and the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony.

Synthesized by Vinony from 52 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Wikiquote, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
55

Top works

  • Marxova politická ekonomie a ekonomická teorie
  • Česko-německá deklarace
  • Rozum proti kovidové panice
  • Ekonomické aspekty koronakrize
  • The current European challenge

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Film & TV

Acting · Prague, Czechoslovakia

Václav Klaus (born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister…

Known for

  • Zánik Československa v parlamentu — Self2024
  • Třicet svobodných — Self2019
  • Mečiar: The Lust For Power2017
  • Eye Over Prague2010
  • Oog in Oog — Self2010
  • What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government — Self1996
  • New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood — Self1992
  • Der Club — Self1985

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1941
schlager
Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
240
Total plays
1,177

Tags

powerviolence

"svět neni černobílej - ale já jo !" kultura degenerátů pětičlennej powerviolence/lopatometal usazenej v praze; nihil párty proti všemu a všem. leden 2013 --- světlo světa spatřila nahrávka "oktan sektan" http://thebandnotthelunatic.bandcamp.com/ <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/V%C3%A1clav+Klaus">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,861x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,612x

  3. Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

    · 2005 · cited 15,848x

  4. REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction

    · 2004 · cited 9,713x

  5. nnU-Net: a self-configuring method for deep learning-based biomedical image segmentation

    · 2020 · cited 9,169x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
b. 1941
Nationality
CZ, CS
Role / Field
Presidents, Economists, Vysokoskolski ucitelia, Prognostici, Prezidents cehija, Economics
Language
cze, ces
Gender
Male

Recorded by 28 libraries

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Quotes

  • “You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”

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Official website

Hlavní stránka | Václav Klaus

Oficiální stránky prezidenta Václava Klause

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Encyclopedic overview

Václav Klaus (born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.

During the Communist era, Klaus worked as a bank clerk and forecaster. After the fall of Communism in November 1989, he became the Minister of Finance in the "government of national unity". In 1991, Klaus was the principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He was prime minister from 1992 to 1998, and from January to February 1993 he held certain powers of the Presidency.

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