František Emmert

Emmert is an author of thirty books (2018), including technical legal literature. He is the co-author of a high school textbook on social science and an author of commentaries and journalistic contributions in the daily press and expert articles and studies in the domains of history, law and international politics in technical papers and in collections. He contributed as an expert adviser on the preparation of the 2011 Czech historical film Lidice.

Many narrative publications followed - called museums in a book - that discuss the key events of the 20th century, focusing mainly on European and Czech history. These publications in large format differ from classical books due to their more elaborate graphic design and legibility of the texts. They contain a large number of photographs, and separately printed appendices - facsimiles of archival material and DVDs with contemporary radio broadcasts. They are used as teaching aids in schools. As of 2012, Emmert has released nine books of this sort, some of which have been reprinted, won awards or been translated into English (The Holocaust). The publication Fateful Eights in Our History was awarded the E. E. Kisch Prize by the Association of Writers in 2009.

After graduating from high school, František Emmert studied history and religious studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. In 2011 he obtained the title Doctor of law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.

He started writing books in 2001. His first two works of fiction were published in 2003 and 2004, and he then started writing non-fiction works about modern European and Czech history. In 2005 the Vyšehrad publishing house published his first non-fiction book, Czechs in the Wehrmacht, which was soon reprinted.

From 1992-2006 he worked as a journalist, broadcaster and book editor. He passed through Czech Radio, the newspapers Rovnost, Právo and ZNnoviny/Slovo and Czech News Agency. From 2009-2011 he worked as a spokesperson for the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno.

František Emmert (born 1974) is author of books about modern European and Czech history.

František Emmert was born in 1974 in Brno (Czech Republic) into the family of František Gregor Emmert, a music composer and professor at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. His father's family came from the town of Weiden in Bavaria, and his mother's family from Teplice in Bohemia. His paternal ancestors worked for generations as glass makers on the German side of the Šumava Mountains (Bohemian Forest). His mother came from a family of traders who owned a family confectioner's shop in Teplice before 1948.