Ivan Miloš Havel (11 October 1938 – 25 April 2021) was a Czech scientist and philosopher. He was the brother of President

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...

, with whom he was one of the founders of the

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. In years 1990–2019, he was the editor-in-chief of ''

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''. In a joint award for 2019/2020 commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the fall of

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, Havel was awarded the

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with Ivan Chvatik (19th) and

Hans-Dietrich Genscher Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affa ...

and

Markus Meckel Markus Meckel (born 18 August 1952) is a German theologian and politician. He was the penultimate foreign minister of the GDR and a member of the German Bundestag. Early life Markus Meckel was born on 18 August 1952 in Müncheberg, Brandenburg. ...

(20th) by the Prague Society and Global Panel Foundation.

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Memory of nations: Doc. Ivan Miloš Havel
1938 births 2021 deaths Czechoslovak scientists 20th-century Czech philosophers Civic Forum politicians Czech Technical University in Prague alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic staff of Charles University Scientists from Prague {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub