Always kind of magically himself
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Milan Nakonečný was born on 8 February 1930 in Horažďovice. His father, Teodor Nakonečný, was originally a Ukrainian White Guard who emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he worked as a notary. Milan Nakonečný experienced the Second World War as a teenager and therefore has many vivid memories and diverse stories. For example, he experienced the well-known bombing of České Budějovice. In 1947, the family moved to Tábor, where he was expelled from high school after February 1948. His path to graduation and university studies was complicated because of his bourgeois background, and later, the regime was also bothered by his views. He became acquainted with the working class as an employee in the Kladno mines and worked in paper mills. In 1958, he graduated from the Faculty of Education, majoring in psychology and pedagogy. From 1962, he worked as an assistant at the newly established Faculty of Journalism, where he was invited by his professor František Hyhlík. In 1967, he graduated in clinical psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 1968 and 1969, he studied in Munich. After the Prague Spring, he was expelled from the faculty in 1970 and worked at the regional marriage counselling centre in České Budějovice until 1975. Then, he taught at the Secondary School of Education in Soběslav until 1985 and at the Child Psychodiagnostic Institute in České Budějovice until 1989. After the Revolution, he was able to devote himself fully to what he enjoyed most: teaching. Among other things, he headed the Department of Andragogy and Personnel Management at Charles University and taught at the Faculty of Theology at the University of South Bohemia. After the Revolution, he published widely, especially books on psychological topics. He is known to the general public for his award-winning Lexicon of Magic and is a follower of Hermeticism and esotericism. After the Revolution, he revived the Hermetic Society Universalia. He is a widower, has a son Milan and lived in Tabor in 2025.
