Jiří Pernes

Jiří Pernes (4 July 1948 – 21 May 2025) was a Czech historian.

Jiří Pernes
Pernes in 2010
Born	(1948-07-04)4 July 1948 Svitavy, Czechoslovakia
Died	21 May 2025(2025-05-21) (aged 76) Czech Republic
Occupation	Historian

Life and career

From 1984 to 1990, he was the director of the Historical Museum in Slavkov u Brna, and from 1990 to 1992, he was director of the Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno. In 2010, he was dismissed from his position as director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes after allegations that he had plagiarized large portions of his 1997 book about Emanuel Moravec from another person's doctoral dissertation.^[1][2] Pernes said that he had never knowingly copied the work of others.^[1]

In 2011, he directed the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Jiří Pernes held lectures at Masaryk University in Brno and at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.^[3]

He worked in the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno.^[4] He wrote many books and papers about Moravian, Czech and Czechoslovak history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Pernes died on 21 May 2025, at the age of 76.^[5][6]