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Book censorship in Bohemia in the Vormärz period
Píša, Petr ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Wögerbauer, Michael (referee)
The thesis deals with the censorship and book banning at the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia during the period from the end ofthe Napoleonic Wars to March1848, and is primarily based on the archive research realized for the period of 1820s in the document collections of the National Archive in Prague (the Presidium of the Czech Gubernium collection) and those of the AIIgemeines V erwaltung s archiv Wien (the Court Police Authority collection) respectively. The thesis shows the development ofthe legislative determining the system of censorship within the Habsburg Monarchy, and presents individual censorship authorities and their representatives. The author ana1yses various aspects of censorship within the supervision of literary communication between the writer and the reader, relationship between the literary and release environments and focuses on the attitude of the Vormarz Austrian book censorship authorities to the Czech national movement. The function and the principles of the censorship are demonstrated on two specific cases, the personality of censor J. N. V. Zimmermann, and the case ofthe work Die europiiische Staatenwelt by Georg Norbert Schnabel.
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Book censorship in Bohemia in the Vormärz period
Píša, Petr ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Wögerbauer, Michael (referee)
The thesis deals with the censorship and book banning at the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia during the period from the end ofthe Napoleonic Wars to March1848, and is primarily based on the archive research realized for the period of 1820s in the document collections of the National Archive in Prague (the Presidium of the Czech Gubernium collection) and those of the AIIgemeines V erwaltung s archiv Wien (the Court Police Authority collection) respectively. The thesis shows the development ofthe legislative determining the system of censorship within the Habsburg Monarchy, and presents individual censorship authorities and their representatives. The author ana1yses various aspects of censorship within the supervision of literary communication between the writer and the reader, relationship between the literary and release environments and focuses on the attitude of the Vormarz Austrian book censorship authorities to the Czech national movement. The function and the principles of the censorship are demonstrated on two specific cases, the personality of censor J. N. V. Zimmermann, and the case ofthe work Die europiiische Staatenwelt by Georg Norbert Schnabel.
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Inovations in the time of privileges: Höchenberger's invention of the field printery
Wögerbauer, Michael
The text analyses the attempts of the Prague book printer Jan Tomas Höchenberger to obtain the privileged position of a military book printer in the 1770s, hence at the time when it was difficult for new companies to win recognition against the obsolete system of privileges. After the first, unsuccessful attempt in 1779-1780, he applied for the privilege again with a 'filed printing press on a cart', which was labelled by both the author and the historian Josef Dobrovský as Höchenberger's 'own invention'. The attempt to obtain the privilege is analysed on the background of the stiffness of the existing system of privileges and on the basis of the thesis of the French book historian Frederic Barbier that at the end of the 18th century there was 'the second book revolution', which however unlike the first (Gutenberg's invention) and third (digitisation) was not characterised by technical progress but by the spreading and democratisation of printed communication. On this background, Höchenberger's attempt is all the more remarkable in that field printing presses fulfil the need of administering the new 'people's' armies and communicating with the growing number of the soldiers that do not fight as mercenaries for money but for their 'country' and 'nation'.
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