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Josef Štogr was born on 24 May 1957 in Kladno, in the former Czechoslovakia. He graduated from primary school and then worked in a factory as a worker. In 1980, he married Jarmila Štogrová, née Doležalová, a signatory of Charter 77, and in the same year, he began publishing and distributing the samizdat magazine Možnost (Opportunity - transl.). Various philosophical and cultural seminars were held in his apartment in Dejvice, Prague, and his dissident activities included the distribution of samizdat magazines and books. In 1981, he and his wife considered emigrating but later rejected this option. In 1989, he participated in Palach Week and the Velvet Revolution and was arrested and interrogated during those days. In February 1990, he became secretary of the district national committee. Together with Viktor Faktor, he founded Regule Pragensis, where various lecture series were held. In 2022, the publicist and poet Josef Štogr lived in Litoměřice.
