Josef Zumr

Josef Zumr (1928) is a Czech philosopher, historian, literary scholar and translator.

From 1952, he studied philosophy and Slavic studies at Charles University in Prague. After a short stint as a publishing editor, he joined the Philosophical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He also lectured externally at the Palacký University in Olomouc. He is a full member of the Institut International de Philosophie in Paris and chairman of the curatorship of the TG Masaryk Institute. He contributes to Philosophical magazine, Literární noviny and Analogon.