Karel Boženek – opavský muzikolog a muzeolog, zakladatel hudebněhistorického oddělení Slezského zemského muzea

Karel Boženek is one of the most important experts in the field of musical culture of so-called Czech Silesia. In the Museum of the Silesian Region in the town of Opava he built a musicological workplace led by him in 1967–1987. He worked as a reseacher and a pedagogue at the Institute of History and Museology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Science of the Silesian University in Opava (1993–2010) after a short career in the Dramaturgy of the Opera and Ballet at the State Theater in Ostrava and as a classical music dramaturgist in Pragokoncert (1988–1993). At present, the Department of Music Education of the Faculty of Education of the University of Ostrava uses his extensive knowledge and rich experience in the research of musical culture in Silesia for scientific student education. He serves as a mentor for PhD students and as na external consultant of the Center for Regional Music Studies.