Editing Václav Havel (section)

==Early life==
Havel was born in [[Prague]] on 5 October 1936<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/18/vaclav-havel|title=Václav Havel obituary|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=W. L.|last=Webb|date=18 December 2011|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> into a wealthy family celebrated in [[Czechoslovakia]] for its entrepreneurial and cultural accomplishments. His grandfather, Vácslav Havel, a real estate developer, built a landmark entertainment complex on Prague's Wenceslas Square. His father, Václav Maria Havel, was the real estate developer behind the suburban [[Barrandov Terraces]], located on the highest point of Prague—next door to which his uncle, [[Miloš Havel]], built one of the largest film studios in Europe.<ref name="Zantovsky">{{cite book |last=Zantovsky |first=Michael |date=2014 |title=Havel: A Life |url=https://archive.org/details/havellife0000anto/page/16 |location=New York |publisher=Grove Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/havellife0000anto/page/16 16 (family accomplishments), 55 (marriage)] |isbn=9780802123152 }}</ref> Havel's mother, Božena Vavrečková,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3416000082/havel-vaclav-1936.html|title=Havel, Vaclav, Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> also came from an influential family; her father was a Czechoslovak ambassador and a well-known journalist.

[[File:Vaclav Havel 1965.jpg|thumb|left|Havel in 1965]]
In the early 1950s, because of his [[Social class|class background]], Havel entered into a four-year apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory assistant and simultaneously took evening classes at a [[Gymnasium (school)#Czech Republic and Slovakia|gymnasium]]. He completed his secondary education in 1954.

For political reasons, he was not accepted into any post-secondary school with a humanities program; therefore, he opted for studies at the Faculty of Economics of the [[Czech Technical University in Prague]] but dropped out after two years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/cs/vaclav-havel/zivotopis/1936-1959 |title=::.Václav Havel.::The official website of Václav Havel, writer, dramatist, dissident, prisoner of conscience, human rights activist, former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic |publisher=Vaclavhavel.cz |access-date=2013-11-19}}</ref> On 9 July 1964, Havel married [[Olga Havlová|Olga Šplíchalová]].<ref name="Zantovsky" />