HISTORY, ARCHEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY - personal papers

František Bauer (*1897, †1967) – historian, journalist, 2 boxes, 1897–1967, take-over list

Jaroslav Bidlo (*1868, †1937) – historian, 30 boxes,1822–1948, inventory

Vojtěch Birnbaum (*1877, †1934) – art historian, 25 boxes, 1836–1944, inventory

Alžběta Birnbaumová (*1895, †1967) – art historian, 127 boxes † 8 containers, 1st half of 20th cent., unarranged

Jaroslav Böhm (*1901, †1962) – archeologist, 24 boxes, 1907–1961, take-over list for part of documents

Josef Dobiáš (*1888, †1972) – historian, 97 boxes † 1 container, cca 1890–1970, take-over list

Hubert Doležil (*1876, †1945) – musical historian and critic, 18 boxes, 1900–1943, arranged

Catalogue from the exhibition by František Kupka (1924), cover and drawing (from Eugen Dostál ´s personal papers)

Coat-of-arms from the knighthood diploma of Hermenegild Jireček awarded by Emperor Franz Josef (from Hermenegild Jireček´s personal papers)

Kamil Krofta

Eugen Dostál (*1889, †1943) – art historian, 7 boxes, 1912–1949, inventory

Jan Eisner (*1885, †1967) – archeologist, 3 boxes, 1st half of 20th cent., unarranged

Josef Emler (*1836, †1899) – historian, archivist, auxiliary historical disciplines, 5 boxes, 1848–1936, inventory

Gustav Friedrich (*1871, †1943) – historian, archivist, auxiliary historical disciplines, 18 boxes, 1871–1948, inventory (for 17 boxes)

Julius Glücklich (*1876, †1950) – historian, 16 boxes, 1991–1950, inventory

Jaroslav Goll (*1846, †1929) – eminent Czech historian, pioneer in critical positivistic methods in Czech historiography, creator of the important historiographic "Goll School", which produced a number of eminent Czech historians, took a prominent role alongside T.G. Masaryk and J. Gebauer in the "manuscript wars" (the disputes over the authenticity of the Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts), focused his research work on the history of the Bohemian Brethren. 11 boxes, 1861–1929, inventory

Alexandr Dmitrijevič Grigorjev (*1874, †1945) – historian, 6 boxes, 1919–1944, inventory

Karel Guth (*1883, †1943) – art historian, archeologist, 1 box, 1st half of 20th cent., unarranged

Václav Chaloupecký (*1882, †1951) – historian, 22 boxes, 1899–1951, inventory

Hermenegild Jireček (*1827, †1909) – historian, legal historian, 12 boxes, 1840–1940, inventory

Vladimír Klecanda (*1888, †1946) – historian, archivist, 11 boxes, 1896–1950, inventory

Václav Král (*1926, †1984) – historian, 10 boxes, 1960s–1970s, take–over list

Kamil Krofta (*1876, †1945) – historian, diplomat, politician, one of the foremost representatives of the "Goll School", focused on the history of the Czech reformation and nationality questions in Central Europe esp. Czech-German relations, author of many studies, synthetic works and valuable textbooks, Czechoslovak Ambassador to the Vatican, Austria and Germany, 1927–1936 deputy to the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, Eduard Beneš, 1936–1938 Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, one of the chief supporters and successors of Beneš's foreign policy doctrine, imprisoned in Terezín during the war, died as a result of his imprisonment shortly after liberation. 27 boxes, 1837–1947, inventory

Jan Květ (*1896, †1965) – historian and art theoretician, 59 boxes, 2nd half of 19th cent. – 1965, unarranged

Milena Linhartová (*1900, †1989) – archivist, historian, auxiliary historical disciplines, 11 boxes, 1907–1977, unarranged

Josef Macek (*1922, †1991) – historian, 6 boxes, 1956–1991, take-over list

František Mareš (*1850, †1939) – archivist, historian, 6 boxes, 1851–1968, inventory

Antonín Matějček (*1889, †1950) – art historian, 3 boxes, 1921–1950, inventory list

Bedřich Mendl (*1892, †1940) – eminent Czech historian whose research interests revolved around economic and social history, esp. focusing on the medieval town, and in this tendency he exercised considerable influence on the next generations of Czech and world historians, committed suicide as a result of Nazi racist persecution. 25 boxes, 1898–1976, inventory (for 22 boxes)

Zdeněk Nejedlý (*1878, †1962), (family archives) – musical scholar and critic, historian, aesthetician, journalist and politician, focused on Czech music of the Hussite period, the life and work of B. Smetana and other figures in Czech music, as for history he was mainly involved in the Hussites, the National Revival and a number of other areas such as the philosophy of Czech history. He was a methodological product of the Goll positivist school and he was strongly influenced at first by the ideas of T. G. Masaryk, to whom he devoted an unfinished monograph but he later assumed left-wing positions which culminated in unconditional support for the Czechoslovak Communist Party, whose political line he promoted extensively after 1945, in several ministerial positions, as a member of the Communist Party Central Committee and the Presidium of the Central Committee, and as the CSAS President (1952–1962). 1023 boxes † 12 m, 1796–1973, partially arranged, documentation of the personal papers are mapped out in a published Guide to the Zdeněk Nejedlý Archives (Průvodce po archivu Zdeňka Nejedlého). Prague, Academia 1976, 237 pp. and several separate inventories

Lubor Niederle (*1865, †1944) – archeologist, ethnologist and ethnographer, anthropologist, the founder of modern Czech archeology, brought up the first generation of professional Czech archeologists, concentrated on Slavonic archeology in its broadest conception, in which he was an internationally acknowledged leading scholar; his scientific organizational activities were also noteworthy, e.g. he was the founder and first Director of the State Archeological Institute (1919–1924) and the Slavonic Institute (1928–1932), one of T. G. Masaryk's pupils. 21 boxes, 1880–1965, inventory list

Jan Bedřich Novák (*1872, †1933) – archivist, historian, 9 boxes, 1881–1947, inventory

Kamil Novotný (*1892, †1959) – art historian, 19 boxes, 1910–1951, inventory

Václav Novotný (*1869, †1932) – historian, one of the leading representatives of the Goll School, a proponent of Masaryk's realism, focused on more remote Czech history, a main initiator of its collective synthetic processing, an outstanding expert in the Hussite period. 45 boxes, 1 folder, 10 file-card indexes, 1785–1933, inventory

Luboš Nový (*1929) – historian of science, esp. mathematics, 97 boxes † 12 bundles, 1950s–1980s, take-over list

Otakar Odložilík (*1899, †1973) – historian, 17 boxes, 1911–1948, inventory

Jan Opočenský (*1885, †1961) – historian, archivist, 20 boxes, 1910–1947, inventory list

Milada Paulová (*1891, †1970) – historian, 49 boxes † 1 case, end of 19th cent.–1960s, take-over list

Václav Procházka (*1910, †1990) – historian of science, organization of science, 2 boxes, 1960s–1970s, unarranged

Artuš Rektorys (*1877, †1971) – musical theoretician and historian, 29 boxes, 1868–1965, inventory

František Roubík (*1890, †1974) – historian, archivist, 41 boxes, 1813–1971, inventory

Edmund Schneeweis (*1886, †1964) – ethnographer, historian, Indogerman scholar, 1 box, 1920s–1930s, unarranged

Josef Vítězslav Šimák (*1870, †1941) – historian, national history, 69 boxes † 26 card-file indexes, 1852–1944, inventory (for 42 boxes)

Václav Vilém Štech (*1885, †1974) – art historian, 59 boxes, 1880s–1970s, unarranged, take-over list (for small part only)

František Teplý (*1867, †1945) – historian, archivist, 10 boxes, 1878–1945, inventory list

Rudolf Urbánek (*1877, †1962) – historian, 33 boxes, early 1960s, unarranged

Anna Vavroušková (*1904, †1993) – historian, auxiliary historical disciplines, 9 boxes, 1950s–1970s, unarranged

Wilhelm Weizsäcker (*1886, †1961) – legal historian, professor at the German university in Prague, a specialist in the acceptance of German municipal law in the Czech lands and Silesia, a supporter of the Nazi regime after 1939, escaped to Germany in 1945 and active at the university of Heidelberg thereafter. 15 boxes, 1834–1945, inventory

Jaroslav Werstadt (*1888, †1970) – historian, archivist, journalist, author of a number of works on the resistance movement at home during World War I, founder of the National Liberation Archives (within the Czech Land Archives), which have collected documents on the first resistance movement, political archive division head and Director of the National Liberation Memorial Library (1929–1939), 1939–1945 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945–1948 he headed the Military History Institute chief, after the 1948 take-over he was pensioned off, 1945–1965 he headed the History Club. 45 boxes, 1 folder, 1 card-file index, 1864–1970, inventory

Wilhelm Wostry (*1871, †1951) – historian specialized in the history of the Germans living in the Czech lands (published "Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen"), RBLS member, "removed" in the post-war transfer in 1945. 9 boxes, 1898–1945, inventory

Heinz Zatschek (*1901, †1965) – historian primarily concerned with medieval history, German medieval diplomacy, the history of offices, he was a long-term supporter of Nazism and during the war he was put in charge of the Czech Philosophical Faculty and the Czech Research Libraries, "removed" in the post-war transfer to Austria in 1945. 22 boxes, 1907–1945, inventory

Hilde Zatschek (*1902, †?) – historian, 7 boxes, 1909–1944, inventory list

Josef Zika (*1921, †1981) – librarian (bibliology) – 9 boxes, 1955–1970, take-over list