The Documents by Maximilian II. and Rudolf II. as a Historio-linguistic Source especially because of the Textological Aspects. On the Research into Chancery Language.

The presented thesis deals with a textological analysis of fifty documents written in German and published by Maximilian II. in Vienna between 1564 and 1574 and Rudolf II in Prague between 1578 and 1608. The thesis is concerned with the political-cultural, religious and social attitudes in the Czech lands in the second half of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century, offices, German as the language of the offices and the praxis of the offices during the reign of Maximilian II. and Rudolf II. The aim of the thesis is to textologically analyze with a focus on the Macrostructure and Microstructure of the selected documents, their comparison and therefore contribute to the research of the German language used in the offices in the second half of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century in the time of Habsburg