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Rokycany in the second half of the 19th century. Cultural and educational societies and their activities
Perková, Kateřina ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Hlavačka, Milan (referee)
DipIoma thesis Rokycany in the Second HaIf of the 19th Century. Cultural and Educational Societies and Their Activities cIarifies the issue using Iiterature and so far unexpIored archives sources. The paper focuses on the activities carried out by the societies from the 1860s to the end ofthe 19th century with a further extension to year 1914. In the first part, basic town - reIated activities are presented; the second part provides an expIanation of supraregional relationships between the societies and their contribution to Czech nationallife. SimuItaneously, the work introduces some 10caI figures acting significantIy in the societies.
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"I have strong desire to travel and learn about foreign countries." Travelling woman in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Vrchotová, Lenka ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
The Diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon of travelling of women in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century. It concentrates on the middle class women, who at this time started to travel. The practical part of the thesis sets a typology of journeys and final destinations. The typology is based on a wide range of primary sources, among others on women diaries, memoirs, articles concerning travelling in fashion magazines and in magazine Ženské listy as well as on relevant documents of the literary society Svatobor archive. The thesis focuses particularly on travelling resulting from the women new occupational needs reflecting thus a growing women emancipation movement in Bohemia and changes in social status of women in Bohemia in given period. The thesis also analyses the course of everyday life of women's travelling and provides an overview of possible sources of information and literature for women who at that time intended to travel.
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Mnichovo Hradiště 1866-1895. Daily life of the small town in the second half of 19th century.
Procházková, Lenka ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Hlavačka, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis outlines the history of the small district town in the second half of the 19th century from a political (government, local government, modernization), economical (transport, especially railways, industrial development) and cultural (socials, social activities, theatre, festivities) point of view. Attention is paid to social, national and religious problems and education. Included are also some portraits of the most prominent personalities of the town. Special Attention is paid to Austro-Prussian war (conflict between Austria and Prussia) in 1866 and on the impact of this exceptional event on people and life in the town. The work is based on archival materials stored in State district archive in Mladá Boleslav and Mnichovo Hradiště Municipal museum, local chronicles, handwritten memories of the local citizens and contemporary regoinal newspapers were taken into account as well as historical works of a synthetic character.
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Jews in Frýdek and Místek Region. Jewish community and its creators.
Baránek, Daniel ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the process of founding, development, decline and destruction of the Jewish community in the Region of Frýdek and Místek. This community represents one of the Jewish communities in Moravia and Silesia being evolved due to the emancipation of the Jews. In comparison with the majority of the existing treatises on the Moravian and Silesian "emancipatory" Jewish communities, this thesis focuses not only on external phenomenons (the number and socio-economic status of the Jews, the construction of religious buildings), but also and mainly pays attention to the Jewish community itself, to its internal evolution and limits, different concepts of its development, to religious and later also to national identity of the members of the Frýdek-Místek Jewish community. The thesis also traces the limits of the integration of the Jews into the surrounding society, as well as the territorial specifics result- ing from the fact that this Jewish community was located in the Moravian-Silesian border. 1
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Jan Boris Spacek 1888-1967. Native of Stepanov in Russia, Bulgaria and the Near East
Turkovič, Alexander ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
This bachelor work concentrates on the life, work, and political activities of Stepanov native Jan Spacek, who was a permanent revolutionary, rebel and crusader for dreams and ideals. This is a probe into the life of a man, who did not enter history as a grand personality of policy or warfare, but who in some ways influenced the great events of his time and was simultaneously transformed by them. The author trys to reveal his reasons for a positive attitude to revolution and half-hearted approach to his family. With the aid of many archived documents, the reasons for his thirty three years in Russia, Bulgaria and the Near East, and his real or ostensible intelligence activity for the Soviet Union, are investigated. Thanks to the collation of many archive sources (both personal and official) there are many different recollections by the people around him. These views differ by their relationship to him or ulterior motives.
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Reception of darwinism in Bohemia between 1859 and 1918
Tomsová, Julie ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
In this B.A. thesis I focus closer on the conditions of the reception of Darwinism in Bohemia in the period between 1859 and 1918. My research deals with the basic mapping and evaluation of the process of acceptance of Darwinism in Czech society, both in public discourse and in more specialized discourse of academic society and in the field of theology. In terms of the professional and scientific discourse I examine the questions of when, through which channels, and in what forms the works of Charles Darwin got into Czech general public; and how people accepted and reflected them. I also examine the responses on Darwin's theories which appeared in contemporary press and literature. I assumed that attitude of particular social groups toward Darwin and his theory was different. Distinct viewpoints took naturalists and scientists and public administration and the Catholic Church. And somewhere between these two different viewpoints occurred the general public. In the thesis I have analysed the process of the reception of Darwinism in Bohemia in the mentioned period and arrived to conclusions that this process did not take place accordingly in all three monitored discourses - public, academic and theological. The ambivalence between mainly positive reception of academic society and negative reaction of the...
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Secondary schools in memoirs in the second half of 19th century
Slámová, Dana ; Kvaček, Robert (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
The presented diploma thesis deals with secondary education in the Czech Lands in the second half of 19th century. The aim of the thesis is to create a portrait of a secondary school based on utilization of memoirs. The main part is focused on the opinions of the contemporaries on secondary education. The first thematic part is dedicated to the key issues which concern study at the secondary school. The central moments which are mentioned by the contemporaries are for example admission to the secondary school, motivation, discipline, religious duties, education, school-leaving exam etc. The second thematic part deals with the after-school life of students. Due to the memoirs the social and economic conditions of students are followed. The other themes from the everyday life are lodgings, board or traveling.
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Genesis of a "New Woman": lives and activities of academically educated women in the Czech lands in the first half of the 20th century through the example of the organized women academician's movement
Malá, Marie ; Kvaček, Robert (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
The proposed diploma thesis focuses on the poorly explored theme of the women participation among university intelligentsia in the Czech Lands in the first half of the 20th century. The chosen theme is analyzed from the point of view of women's academic clubs, which have appeared in this region already at the beginning of 20th century. In addition to their representative function they have also fulfilled the mission of peculiar cultural and social agents of their age. Concurrently with the exploration of history, this thesis follows the significance and the structure of three forms of organized women academicians' movement, the prospective 5 personal and ideological continuity in the women academic society, which concentrated in the 'Ženský kroužek Slavia', in the Sdružení akademicky vzdělaných žen, and between the two world wars in the 'Sdružení vysokoškolsky vzdělaných žen v R. Č. S. For the purpose of encompassing a broader context, within which the mentioned fellowships have pursued their activities, the thesis also partly mentions the general evolution of the possibility of women's academic education, and also the dimension of sociability of women intelligentsia, which became expressed in the International Federation of Women - a prestigious organization, in which female academicians from more than 30...
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Czechs at world's fairs
Ulmanová, Kristýna ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
In the introduction, the thesis author provides a typology of Czech travelers who visited one of the world exhibitions in the second half of the nineteenth century. Then the work focuses this typology on two types of travelers, namely the type of traveler-tourist and the type of traveler-scholar. The type of traveler-tourists is first defined by the contemporary understanding of the concept of "tourist." Then the conditions in which Czech tourists traveled to the World's Fairs are described, where they were housed and how they ate. Subsequently, the author analyzes the reasons why the Czech traveler-tourist traveled to the exhibition, what were his expectations, and whether those expectations were realistic. The work also captures the emerging phenomenon of mass trips abroad. Part of the work also deals with cultural stereotypes and self-reflection of Czech tourists, provoked by contact with other countries and their inhabitants. The traveler-scholar is characterized by comparison with the traveler-tourist. Furthermore, the author pays attention to international congresses, which were an integral part of the World's Fairs and in which the traveler-scholar often participated. The example of Unity of the Encouragement of Industry in Bohemia shows how the representatives of Czech organizations were sent to the...
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Topography of the Jewish population in Highlands. A case in point Velký Beranov and Malý Beranov
Kuncová Zadražilová, Jaroslava ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
This work deals sith the topography of Jewish population in highlands of Jihlava region, giving an example of the history of Velký Beranov and Malý Beranov villages. Jewish population in those two villages was not so numerous as in towns, nevertheless it comprised a significant demographic part of both of the villages. It also formel an important commercial social vlase. The pupils of the basic school in Velký Beranov took part in a project of the Jewish Museum in Prague, "The Missing Neighbours", which formed the motivation for my thesis. The participants of the project are searching for the life stories of "The Missing Neighbours" from thein own region. Of course the pupils of the Basic School in Velký Beranov chose their region Velký Beranov and Malý Beranov. A short treatise about Jewish Religious Community in Jihlava and its local inhabitants, as well as about the Jewish population in the whole Bohemia and Moravia, make also the cotents of my theses.
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