Historian Karel Kazbunda and his native Town of Jičín

The name of Karel Kazbunda (1888 Jicin - 1982 Jicin), the Czech historian and archivist, is known only by a few professionals today. A graduate in history and geography at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague, he collaborated in the Czechoslovak-Austrian separation of archives after World War One, when he also undertook an in-depth study into the Viennese archives and copied thousands of pages of archive documents. Because of this, he became one of the greatest experts in Austrian and Czech history in the latter half of the 19th century, and focused on the journalist Karel Havlicek Borovsky. While employed in the Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague, he gave lectures as a private tutor at Charles' University. He published several professional studies. His most important books are The Czech Movement of 1848 (České hnutí 1848), and three volumes of the Chair in History at Prague University (Stolice dějin na pražské univerzitě). However, most of his work remained in manuscript form. Only some of them were published after his death. This Master's thesis emphasises Kazbunda's close affinity with his native town, describes the environment in which he grew up - the Grammar school and the Academic Readers' Union student association (Akademická čtenářská jednota) and provides hitherto little-known..