Julius Tomin

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Three Decades in Exclusion from Academic Philosophy with Socrates and Plato as Companions

Julius Tomin Brief Biography

  

Born 2 December 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

 

1956 – 1957 Teacher at secondary school, Slovakia

 

1957-8 imprisoned twice: first for refusal of military service, second for attempt to leave the country

  

1965 PhDr “Scientific Foundations of Morality” Charles University, Prague

 

1966 – 1970 Junior Fellowship, Philosophical Faculty

 

1969 - 1970 Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii

   

1970 – 1975 Turbine operator, Prague power plant

 

1975 – 1980 officially unemployed, unofficially supported by a grant from West Germany

 

December 1976 signs Charter 77

 

1977 – 1980 ‘unofficial’ philosophy seminars in Prague

 

August 1980 Comes to Britain with his family

 

1980 – 1998 lives in Oxford; during this time also gives lectures and seminars in South Africa and almost every UK University

 

1980 - 1988 supported by various academic grants

 

1988 – 1998 officially unemployed

 

September 1998 – May 2000 in Prague

  

October 2000 – present Lives in Gloucestershire


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