(1 March 1916, Klimkovice – 4 January 2000, Prague), was a historian, most noted for his work on the economic and social history of the Czech-speaking region in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
He was a member correspondent of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and professor of the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.
[2] From 1947 to 1981 Klíma lectured on modern history at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University in Prague.
At the beginning of the nineties, Arnošt Klima devoted himself to preparing the writing of his memoirs.
He was during this time elected to the steering committee of the World Congress of Economic Historians, and was noted for 'his endeavours to establish contacts with the historians of the Soviet bloc', but was prevented by the Czechoslovakian government from participating in the committee or congresses.