František Ladislav Chleborád

• Honorific Prefix — Doctor • Name — František Chleborád • Born — 24 November 1839 • Birthplace — Habry, Bohemia, Austrian Empire • Died — 20 July 1911 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire • Resting Place — Saint Petersburg, Polish cemetery • Field — political economy • Alma Mater — University of Prague • Influences — Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch

Born in Habry in Bohemia, part of the Austrian Empire, he graduated from Staroměstské gymnázium (Old Town gymnasium) in Prague and went on to study law and political economy. Being fluent in Bulgarian, Russian, German, Serbian or French, Chleborád travelled the world and became an honorary consul of the Republic of Venezuela. He held many posts during his active career, including the chairman of the Sokol in Brno, and leadership roles in financial institutions and banks. Chleborád was prominent for founding the worker's cooperatives, named Oul (19th century Czech for 'beehive'), encouraging workers to unite and to be educated. The organization was inspired by the ideas of Schulze-Delitzsch. The Czech mutual aid movement then spread outside of Prague and was also established in Brno and Liberec. He taught political economy at the University of Prague, writing influential textbooks, arguing for nationalist socialism. He was academically active at around the financial crisis of 1873. In 1888, Chleborád emigrated to the Russian Empire, where he became the government's adviser on matters Slavic and financial. He died in Saint Petersburg in 1911.

Chleborád wrote many treatises on political economy, published in newspapers (such as Dělník and Dělnické Listy) and even wrote a poetic work on saints Cyril and Methodius: • Boj o majetek (1884) • Hospodářství vlastenecké (1868) • Pomoc chudým dělníkům (1868) • Soustava národního hospodářství politického (1869) • Věštcové slávy. K oslavení tisícileté památky prvosvětitelů Slovanů sv. Cyrilla a Methoděje (1888) (poetry)

The authorities additionally record the headings František Ladislav Chleborad and Frantisek Ladislav Chleborad. His recorded languages were Czech, French, German and Russian.

František Ladislav Chleborád worked in economics, national economy, law, cooperative movement and labor movement. He worked at Habry, Havlíčkův Brod, Prague and Saint Petersburg.

František Ladislav Chleborád is recorded as economist, publisher, jurist, lawyer and poet.