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Francis Dvornik

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In 1927, he returned to Czechoslovakia. Receiving his appointment in 1928, he became professor of ecclesiastical history at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Charles University in Prague. There, he became one of the founders of the Institute of Slavic Studies in Prague and co-founder of the journal ''Byzantinoslavica''.
After the German occupation of the "rest of Czechoslovakia" in1939in 1939, Fr. Dvornik emigrated to Great Britain in 1939, and to France in 1940. In France, he taught at the Collège de France and the Paris Ecole des Hautes Etudes. In 1948, Fr. Dvornik was appointed Professor of Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Center at Harvard University. Between 1962 and 1965, he was an Advisor for History and Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council. In 1965, he became professor emeritus.
In later years, Dvornik regularly returned to Czechoslovakia to visit. On [[November 4]], 1975, during a visit to his birthplace in Chomýž, he suffered a fatal heart attack and was buried in his family tomb in the cemetery of Bílavsko.
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