Miroslav Ivanov

For the Bulgarian footballer, see Miroslav Ivanov (footballer).

Miroslav Ivanov (1929, Jozefov nad Metují - 1999, Prague) was popular Czech nonfiction writer.

His father was executed during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Ivanov studied history and Czech language at the Charles University in Prague. He then worked at the university for seven years. In 1960 he started work as a journalist and then began to publish books. He concentrated on the medieval and modern history of Czech people and published 37 works (1.5 million copies printed). He was also known outside Czechoslovakia.

In his books he used a very systemic approach of fact gathering and employed modern scientific verification technology: for example he was the first one to test Rukopis královédvorský a zelenohorský (fake collection of ancient writings) using modern forgery detection methods.

External links

• Short biography (in Czech)
• Details about his life (in Slovak)

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Name	Ivanov, Miroslav
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Date of birth	1929
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Date of death	1999
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