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Jiří Pernes (4 July 1948, Svitavy) is a Czech historian.
Between 1984-1990 he was director of the Historical Museum in Slavkov u Brna (Austerlitz), then between 1990-1992 he was director of the Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno. In 2011 he directed the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Jiří Pernes held lectures at the Masaryk University in Brno and at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
Nowadays he works in the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Science in Brno. He wrote many books and papers about Moravian, Czech and Czechoslovak history in 19th and 20th centuries.
In 2010 he was dismissed from his position as director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes after allegations he had plagiarized large portions of his 1997 book about Emanuel Moravec from another person's doctoral dissertation. Pernes' said he had never knowingly copied the work of others.
Selected works
- Spiklenci proti Jeho Veličenstvu aneb Historie tzv. spiknutí Omladiny v Čechách, Praha 1988
- Život plný nepřátel aneb Život a smrt Františka Ferdinanda d'Este, Praha 1995
- Habsburkové bez trůnu, Praha 1995
- Pod moravskou orlicí aneb Dějiny moravanství, Brno 1996
- Maxmilián I. Mexický císař z rodu Habsburků, Praha 1997
- Až na dno zrady. Emanuel Moravec, Praha 1997
- Pod Habsburským orlem. České země a Rakousko-Uhersko na přelomu 19. a 20. století, Praha 2001, 2006
- Takoví nám vládli. Komunističtí prezidenti Československa a doba, v níž žili, Praha 2003
- František Josef I. Nikdy nekorunovaný český král, Praha 2005
- Komunistky. S fanatismem v srdci, Praha 2006
- Krize komunistického režimu v Československu v 50. letech 20. století, Brno 2008