Mgr. Jan Kouřimský

Mgr. Jan Kouřimský (*1982) is a professional archivist at the National Archives in Prague. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, majoring in political science and contemporary history. He is interested in political and church history in Czechoslovakia.

At the National Archives, he specializes in archival funds related to the justice system of the First Republic, Nazi persecution and the Jewish Holocaust. He is engaged in official and research searches in the above-mentioned areas.

Since 2023, when the National Archives became a partner institution of the Czech national EHRI node, it has been cooperating in the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ project - Digital Research Infrastructure for Language Technology, Arts and Humanities, with a focus on EHRI.