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Václav Bolemír Nebeský as a translator of Ancient literature
VEJVODOVÁ, Lucie
This bachelor´s thesis: "Václav Bolemír Nebeský as a translator of Ancient literature," deals with the Czech poet of the 19th century, Václav Bolemír Nebeský and especially with his translations from ancient literature. Above all, this work reveals his relationship to antiquity as to a certain period of history and his motivation to translate ancient authors. This thesis also works with the original sources from which Václav Bolemír Nebeský could draw upon and presents their final importance in the final translations. Last but least, this thesis also focuses on the theory of translation, the history of translation practices and compares the translation techniques of the past with the current ones. As a result, this bachelor´s thesis presents a comprehensive picture of Václav Bolemír Nebeský as an important translator of antiquity, explains his inner motivation for the translation of ancient literature and stresses the importance of his works as a part of the Czech literary canon of the 19th century.
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Agricultural school of Písek from 1870 to 1927.
KUŽELOVÁ, Barbora
The bachelor thesis submitted deals with the creation, history and development of the agricultural high school in Pisek at the turn of the 20th century. The agricultural high school is one of the most prominent schools in the town of Pisek and its longstanding successful operations place it among the best high schools in Pisek. The thesis is based upon study of specialized literature, publications, printed yearly reports and yearbooks. The thesis is structured into 5 basic chapters. Since the agricultural high school is closely linked to agriculture practices, the second chapter outlines the history of agriculture at the turn of the 20th century and focuses more specifically on the period starting from the revolutionary year of 1848. The following chapter describes in general terms the history of agricultural education and the creation of agricultural and farming schools in the Czech lands within the context of agriculture history. It subsequently explains the gradual upswing of this type of school and the reasons for their creation in terms of educational needs of landowners and their national awareness. The fourth chapter deals with the history of the town of Pisek where the agricultural high school was created and run its operations with a particular focus on events that took place in the period starting from its foundation onwards. The last closing chapter is devoted to the history of the school from its foundation until the year 1949 with a small digression to the year 1970. It deals with the reasons and circumstances underlying its foundation, analyzes its upswing and expansion, touches on a few significant events in its history, contains a statistics of its student body and teachers and finally provides a list of specialized training courses on offer. An entire chapter is devoted to one of the most prominent figures in the school history, its longtime headmaster, Ladislav Burket.
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Lilliputians.Representations of the bodily "difference" in the Prague's freakshow culture 1820-1940
Herza, Filip ; Storchová, Lucie (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
In the following essay, I focus on the representations of bodily "difference" in the Prague's freakshow culture, particulary on the displays of the so called "Lilliputians", which were popular among the public from the beginning of the 19th Century to the 40's of the 20th Century. Firstly, I introduce the Prague's curiosity exhibitions as a specific social praxis and I compare them with similar displays in Europe and the United States. In the second part of this essay, I try to analyse those exhibitions critically, using the concepts from the present disability studies discourse. I deal with the bodily "otherness" as a category of difference, which arises from the intersection of different ideologies. According to the point of view, this category shaped the individual and collective identities and fostered the social hierarchies of the time. Throughout the essay, I focus on the dis/continuities in the imagination of bodily "difference" and I try to describe the specificity of the Czech freakshow tradition. Key words: 19th Century, body, representations, bodily difference, abnormality, ideology
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Alfred de Musset and his dramatic work
Koždoňová, Alžběta ; Jamek, Václav (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
The purpose of this study is to define different types of love in selected theatre plays of Alfred de Musset. I also partly focused in his plays on social questions, negative characters and unconventional theatrical methods. At first I introduced the work and important moments of writer's life which were often an inspiration for his stories and characters. I also outlined the brief history of romantic theatre and finally analyzed the theatre plays. The selected analyzes include the extracts illustrating the types of loves or unique traits of characters. The contribution of this study consists in defining the original method the author used to describe the profundity of the feelings of his characters. Key words: Alfred de Musset, French theatre, 19th Century, romanticism, types of love Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The regional differences in mortality in Bohemia in 1881
Sykáčková, Petra ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Kurtinová, Olga (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze mortality in Bohemia according to regions in 1881 and to find possible differences of the mortality level. The analysis of mortality is based on results of abridged life tables computed for both sexes within ten regions defined to approximately correspond to nowadays regions. Results of infant mortality and standardized crude death rate were used as well. The explanation of differences in the level of mortality is based on current economic and social situation of 1881 within each area. These areas were significantly different from each other. The 1881 belongs to the first phase of the demographic transition, in which mortality was not marked by high volatility anymore, but at the same time the level of mortality was not significantly reduced. The first phase of the industrial revolution was already completed, that affected also other aspects of human life and these aspects influenced the level of mortality. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Lilliputians.Representations of the bodily "difference" in the Prague's freakshow culture 1820-1940
Herza, Filip ; Storchová, Lucie (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
In the following essay, I focus on the representations of bodily "difference" in the Prague's freakshow culture, particulary on the displays of the so called "Lilliputians", which were popular among the public from the beginning of the 19th Century to the 40's of the 20th Century. Firstly, I introduce the Prague's curiosity exhibitions as a specific social praxis and I compare them with similar displays in Europe and the United States. In the second part of this essay, I try to analyse those exhibitions critically, using the concepts from the present disability studies discourse. I deal with the bodily "otherness" as a category of difference, which arises from the intersection of different ideologies. According to the point of view, this category shaped the individual and collective identities and fostered the social hierarchies of the time. Throughout the essay, I focus on the dis/continuities in the imagination of bodily "difference" and I try to describe the specificity of the Czech freakshow tradition. Key words: 19th Century, body, representations, bodily difference, abnormality, ideology
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Magic world. The territory, time and people of the story of childhood in the family of Prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein
POLÁČEK, Vít
Italian writer and nobleman Giuseppe di Lampedusa wrote significantly in his memoirs, that he wanted to describe the space of his childhood and people of which he was surrounded. How would the territory, time and people look like in the stories of eight children of last Austro-Hungarian ambassador by the Holy See, the prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein? What places formed their view of the world? How did their time flow? What people influenced them and what kinds of education methods were used in an aristocratic family on the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century? This thesis is attempting on untraditional view on history of childhood in aristocracy through the point of view of their children. There are used various sources like memoirs, correspondence, but also childish drawings or narration of the youngest daughter of Prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein, Sophie Carillo. For the education of noble children, there was typical to live in history, the care of tutors and governesses, bringing up to duties, the veneration of old traditions or periodical travelling. The thesis is using the knowledge of psychology for the reconstruction of motivations, relationships between brothers and sister, but also directly each person in the family, their dream worlds and games?
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Schwarzenbergs and the railway. Relationship primogeniture Schwarzenberg to rail transport in the 19th century.
IVANOV, Jan
Railway and nobility - at first glance the opposite sides of one coin. The aristocracy was considered conservative part of society, as a symbol of "the old times". Railway presented the other side of the coin: ?the new age? and economical progress. What was the same on these two symbols? Why nobility supported the build of railroads through their domain? How was the role of Nobles in the construction of railroads? The point of view of this publication is at the history of railways in terms of Nobles as the businessmen. Shows an example of primogeniture Schwarzenberg, how aristocrats engage themselves in the construction of railways, railway companies in the management and support local projects. You can find here examples of the nobility built industrial railroad for their business. The work shows that the nobility to maintain its economic power after the abolition of feudalism had to adopt modern capitalism and the development of rail transport.
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