Jaroslav Krejči, a respected sociologist, historian and economist and
professor emeritus at Lancaster University, died on Sunday at the age of
98. The news was confirmed by Hana Katrňáková of Masaryk University in
Brno. Krejči, whose father was infamously premier of the Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia during WW II, was a member of the anti-Nazi
resistance.
After the war, in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, he was found guilty of treason
and received a 10-year sentence. Mr Krejči was released under an amnesty
in 1960 and, together with his wife, left Czechoslovakia for Great Britain
in 1968. In the 1970s he was named professor at Lancaster University,
where
he focussed on the macrosociological interpretation of history and
civilisation.