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Václav Chaloupecký Czechoslovak historian and archivist (1882-1951)
Ducháček, Milan ; Čornejová, Ivana (advisor) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee) ; Mervart, Jan (referee)
The aim of the presented PhD thesis is to deal with the historiographical legacy of Czech historian Václav Chaloupecký (1882-1951), the pupil of Josef Pekař and Jaroslav Goll. During the First Czechoslovak republic Chaloupecký kept the professorship of Czechoslovak history at the newly established Comenius University in Bratislava. His historiographical work has its basis in mediaevistic studies yet it also deals with the questions of contemporary history. The roots of his creativity, however, lie in poetry. Chaloupecký's work is often marked as "czechoslovakist" and positivist and due to this fact usually viewed as methodologically and ideologically obsolete. The aim of this thesis is to rethink Chaloupecký's historiographical legacy from the non-nationalistic and ideologically open minded point of view. The core of this critical approach is to show the stereotypes bound with Chaloupecký's name and last but not least to reveal the specific ideological background of Chaloupecký's work, its roots based in his individual experience with the Czech and Slovak cultural horizon and mainly in the marriage with the Slovak modernist poet Ľudmila Groeblová. The result should show a picture of life and work of a historian which was interrupted due to three breaks - The Great War, Second World War and the...
Rudolf Holinka - The Native of South Bohemia between Prague, Bratislava and Brno
FROYDOVÁ, Zuzana
Submitted diploma thesis describes the life of historian Rudolf Holinka. His area of specialization was especially in the Middle Ages. He was a well-known professor and an author of medieval-themed books. His life was significantly influenced by the important changes in the society. He became a member of academic environment at Charles University in Prague at Faculty of Philosophy. He developed his interest in the history under the influence of the first generation Goll's students. His activity was moved to the recently opened Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava. He had to leave this place in consequence of changes which were happened during 1938. Holinka didn't even avoid the Nazi repression which burst out after German occupation of Czechoslovakia. There is also depicted his life during the Communist era. This diploma work tries as first to map the historian's life from the time of early studies up to his university work which was culminated by his appointment of professor at Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University in Brno.

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