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Masters of Prague Faculty of Arts 1437-1448
Kotau, Pavel ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Svatoš, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with masters of arts who lectured at the Prague faculty of arts or graduated from it in the years between 1437 and 1448. The work includes a reconstruction of the corps of masters for the period, their individual descriptions, and an analysis of the academic community, with special attention to the ties between masters and groups of masters.
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Realism at Prague university during the reign of Wenceslas IV
Řezník, Jan ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Rybák, David (referee) ; Demjančuk, Nikolaj (referee)
This thesis is devoted to the analysis of the realist view in the dispute about the nature of universals at Prague university during the reign of Wenceslas IV. At the same time, I explore the realism of the beginning of the fifteenth century in the Czech intellectual environment with regard to its international influences, with which I deal both synchronically and diachronically. I inquire into Prague realism as an original tradition of thinking, which is inspired by the philosophy and logic of foreign thinkers, but such influence is recontextualized into the Czech intellectual environment in a completely unprecedented way. My epistemological framework is based in inductive research, which I conduct by combining the results derived from the analysis of independent datasets of primary data. Such methodological choice enables me to carry out triangulation, i.e. finding the objective truth through approaching the topic from various viewpoints. I reach the conclusion that the dispute about the nature of universals at Prague university at the beginning of the fifteenth century cannot be reduced to the opposition between the nominalism of German masters and the realism of Czech masters, but realism can be apprehended as an important school of thought in terms of establishing an independent tradition of...
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Matthew of Cracow. His activity in Prague and the manuscripts containing his works in czech milieu
Lužný, Michael ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Doležalová, Lucie (referee)
This thesis deals with Matthew of Cracow. This significant late-medieval scholar spent the greatest part of his life, from the 60s until the beginning of 90s of the 14th century, at the Prague university. The majority of his voluminous literary heritage was created during the years spent in Prague. His most important works belonged to the wide reformation movement which was gaining ground in the late 14th century Bohemia, when the crisis of the Catholic Church escalated. The first part provides a brief overview of Matthew's stay in Prague. The emphasis is placed on extant sources proving Matthew's Prague activity, which are confronted with some deductions and assumptions present in older literature. This thesis includes a list of manuscripts containing transcriptions of Matthew's texts kept in Czech institutions. Based on an analysis of this list, the main part of the thesis then shows the reception of his texts in the Bohemian milieu. This kind of research has not yet been conducted in Czech historiography and thus creates a foundation for the future study of Matthew and other members of the Prague pre-Hussite university.
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Masters of Prague Faculty of Arts 1437-1448
Kotau, Pavel ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Svatoš, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with masters of arts who lectured at the Prague faculty of arts or graduated from it in the years between 1437 and 1448. The work includes a reconstruction of the corps of masters for the period, their individual descriptions, and an analysis of the academic community, with special attention to the ties between masters and groups of masters.
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Life and Work of Wilhelm Matzka
Chocholová, Michaela ; Bečvářová, Martina (advisor) ; Hora, Jaroslav (referee) ; Hykšová, Magdalena (referee)
Wilhelm Matzka (1798-1891) was a German mathematician as well as an important person of the University of Prague and an eminent representative of the mathematical community in the Czech countries in the middle of the 19th century. This thesis is original and reminds of his life as well as of his scientific, pedagogical and organizational activities. The center of this work is formed by the analysis and the evaluation of Matzka's mathematical work, its classification in the development of mathematics and its education. There are mentioned his studies and monographs on mathematical applications like physics, chronology, astronomy and geodesy as well, which give the thesis a sig- nificant interdisciplinary character. This thesis presents also lot of historical connections and provides a view of the situation in the German, Czech and European world of mathematics in the 19th century.
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