Abstract
This article is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Ignác Antonín Hrdina, who passed away on 22 April 2022.
During the communist period in Czechoslovakia he secretly entered the Premonstratensian Order and was covertly ordained as a priest in Krakow, Poland. After 1989 he was involved in the renewal of monastic life at Strahov Monastery in Prague, where he served for many years as a parish priest and rector of the basilica.
At the same time, he developed his academic career at the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague. The article summarizes his life and personality, as well as the diversity of his scientific work.