Petr Hrubý

Who is Petr Hrubý?

Peter Rudolph Hruby is an academic and writer born in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at Charles University in Prague after it reopened in 1945 after World War II. He studied Philosophy, Psychology, Literature and Languages and organized three national programs: Week of Children’s Joy, 1946 & 1947, Cultural Unity’s Youth Club, and a vacation exchange program for Czech and Slovak children.

After the Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 he exiled himself to Geneva. While there he founded the monthly journal Skutecnost. The first issue came out in the spring of 1949 and Peter Hruby edited it for two years. A selection of articles from Skutecnost are available in a collection titled Hluboka Stopa, published by Vilém Prečan in 2008.

In 1969 Peter Hruby received an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He worked as an editor and writer for Radio Free Europe in Munich from 1951 to 1957. In 1957 he immigrated to the USA, and worked for Radio Free Europe as a senior editor and writer until 1964. In the evenings he attended Columbia University and obtained an MA in Eastern European Studies.