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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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