He was respected in the professional world as a logician and legal theorist who became known to a broad public beyond the academic framework as a political admonisher.
He was initially unable to complete his law studies at Masaryk University in his hometown and spent four years in concentration camps.
[2][3][4] As a democrat and liberal thinker, he refused to join the Czechoslovak Communist Party and was subsequently repressed by those in power.
[2] Despite the most adverse circumstances, he managed to embark on an academic career as a Professor at the Charles University in Prague, where he taught logic between 1956 and 1968.
[2][4] In his PhD dissertation, Weinberger defends the applicability of logic to norms or normative propositions respectively.