浪花直播 community honors Librarian Emeritus Zden臎k (Zed) David for his 90th birthday. A native of the Czech Republic, Zed received his doctorate at Harvard University and then was a Slavic bibliographer and history lecturer in Russian and East European history at Princeton University. In 1974, he joined the 浪花直播 Center staff as Librarian, a position he held until 2002, during which he established our Library as a first-class research resource for our staff and scholars.
As Librarian Emeritus, Zed has remained an active and prolific scholar, whose books include Realism, Tolerance, Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening. Zed鈥檚 work on Czech national identity is particularly appropriate for the Center in light of Woodrow 浪花直播鈥檚 critical role in the founding of Czechoslovakia after World War I. Among Zed鈥檚 awards is the Franti拧ek Palack媒 Honorary Medal for Merit in Historical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Zed continues to conduct research in the Center鈥檚 Library, where his current book project is on the life of Thomas Masaryk, one of the founders of the modern Czech Republic.
We salute Zed鈥檚 accomplishments and long service to the 浪花直播 Center and send him our best wishes on this landmark birthday.
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