Milan Hamada
Born(1933-09-09)9 September 1933
Veľká, Czechoslovakia
Died13 February 2023(2023-02-13) (aged 89)
Bratislava, Slovakia
OccupationLiterary critic
Years active1957–2009

Milan Hamada (9 September 1933 – 13 February 2023) was a Slovak literary theorist, historian, and critic.

Hamada was born on 9 September 1933 in the village of Veľká, which has been a part of the city of Poprad since 1946.[1] He was educated at the grammar school in Kežmarok and later studied Slovak and Russian language at the Comenius University, graduating in 1957.[2] From 1959 to 1972 he worked as a researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.[3] His writings, in which he criticized ideological blindness and nationalism, significantly contributed to the intellectual underpinning of the Prague Spring.[4][5]

Due to his staunch resistance to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he faced persecution from the authorities and was not allowed to work in academia for much of the 1970s and 1980s.[6] After the Velvet Revolution, he returned to the Academy of Sciences. From 1993 to his retirement in 2009 he also taught at the University of Trnava.[3]

In 2003 Hamada received the Order of Ľudovít Štúr, 1st Class, from the president Rudolf Schuster.[7]

Hamada died in Bratislava on 13 February 2023, at the age of 89.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Milan Hamada". Literárne informačné centrum. 11 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Milan Hamada. In: "Osoby, ktoré získali titul na UK". Univerzita Komenského.
  3. 1 2 Hamada, m. In: "FILIT : Otvorená filozofická encyklopédia". Univerzita Komenského.
  4. ↑ Šútovec, Milan (16 February 2023). "Milan Hamada a jeho kultúrna misia". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Nagy, Dado (16 February 2023). "Za Milanom Hamadom a Milošom Janouškom". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Hanus, Martin. "Týždenný výber šéfredaktora / Odchod veľkého muža". www.postoj.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Milana Hamadu sa komunistom nepodarilo umlčať". spis.korzar.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Zomrel slovenský literárny teoretik, historik a kritik Milan Hamada". Petit Press. 13 February 2023. ISSN 1335-4418. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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