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Marie Sovová née Janečková was born on 3 May 1932 in Černovice in the area of Tábor. Her parents run a department store there. She witnessed the deportation of the Jews from Černovice. The enterprise and all the properties of the Janeček family were confiscated by communists in 1950. After finishing her studies at the town school in Černovice, she passed the secondary school-leaving exam. She was not admitted to study at university for the first time because of her bourgeois origin and she spent a year working in a pharmacy laboratory. She studied Pharmacy at the university in Brno from 1952 to 1957. She started to work as a teacher at the Faculty of Pharmacy shortly after graduation. She got married to her university colleague Jaroslav Sova in 1959. From 1960 to 1971, she worked in Bratislava where the faculty was moved from Brno. She taught Pharmacy at the newly established faculty in Hradec Králové from 1971. She also experienced the Velvet Revolution there. Marie Sovová lived in Hradec Králové in 2021.