David, Zdenek V. 1931-

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David, Zdenek V. 1931-

PERSONAL:

Born May 4, 1931, in Blatna, Czech Republic; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Vaclav (a circuit judge) and Julie (a fashion magazine editor) David; married Katherine O'Leary, September 17, 1960 (divorced November 8, 1980); married Eleanor Miller (a civil servant), October 9, 1993 (deceased, April 19, 2003); children: (first marriage) Julie David Al-Saadwi, Ann David Cinquino, Katherine David-Fox, Margaret David Oytan, Michael Zdenek, Stephen Vaclav. Ethnicity: "Czech." Education: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, B.A., 1952; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1960. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Washington, DC. Office—Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20004-3027. E-mail—zdenek.david@wilsoncenter.org.

CAREER:

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, assistant professor, 1960-65; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, librarian and associate professor, 1966-74; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, senior scholar, 1974—.

MEMBER:

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Czechoslovak Studies Association, Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.

WRITINGS:

(With Robert A. Kann) Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 1984.

Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2003.

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