Development and Personalities of Polish Philology Department at Prague's Univeristy till Year 1939

The interception of life events researched personalities, who formed Polish studies in Prague at the Czech university and the German university. The thesis describes a period between early eighties of nineteenth century till the year 1939, when the Czech universities were closed. The research of the German university in Prague continues till the year 1945, when it was permanently closed. The institutional developments at both of the universities in Prague, as well as a brief history of Polish studies and Slavic studies in the whole Czech lands before the researched time period, are also partly described. The personalities, whose life events are described, are the philologists Josef Kolář, Adolf Černý, Teofil Kowalski, Bohumil Karel Vydra, Miroslav Zelenka, Iza Šaunová, Franz Spina, Gerhard Gesemann - the literary historians Lubor Niederle, Jiří Polívka, Jan Hanuš Máchal, Marian Szyjkowski a Karel Krejčí - the historians Jaroslav Bidlo and Josef Pfitzner. The most known ethnographer of that period, Edmund Schneeweis, must be also mentioned. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org