Norbert capek biography sampler

Norbert Fabián Čapek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtʃapɛk]; 3 June 1870 – 30 October 1942^[1]) was the founder of the modern Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia.

Early life

Čapek was born into a Roman Catholic family on 3 June 1870 in Radomyšl, a market town in southern Bohemia. As a boy, he wanted to join the priesthood but soon became disillusioned with the church.

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At 18, he left Catholicism, became a Baptist, and was ordained a minister.^[2]

Čapek traveled widely as a Baptist evangelist, from Saxony in the west to Ukraine in the east. In Moravia, he was influenced by free Christianity and the Moravian Church, and his religious convictions became progressively more liberal and anti-clerical.

He wrote for and edited a number of journals.^{[citation needed]} His articles on topics ranging from psychology to politics attracted unfavorable attention from the German authorities, and in 1914, he and his wife, Marie, and their eight children