Chair

PhDr. Marta Hradilová
Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1
Tel. 234 612 215
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The Department for the Cataloguing and Study of Manuscripts is the only purely codicological establishment and research centre in the Czech Republic. The Commission for the Cataloguing and Study of Manuscripts, made up of leading external experts, is authorized to carry out methodological supervision of its activities. The Department's area of research covers manuscripts of a non-official nature, which are
examined in their entirety, i.e. not just their content, but also their external characteristics. Since 1969 a key task at the Department has been its General Catalogue of Manuscripts Housed on the Territory of the Czech Republic and Manuscript Bohemica from Abroad. This also includes methodological issues; one important milestone has been the publication of Manuscript Description Principles (Zásady pro popis rukopisů). Another achievement has been the compilation of the Guide to Manuscript Fonds in the Czech Republic (Průvodce po rukopisných fondech v ČR), aiming to record the entire manuscript heritage of this country in the form of primary entries. An electronic database was chosen as the primary form for the General Catalogue of Manuscripts, the openness of which allows new manuscripts to be catalogued and changes in the existing descriptions to be recorded. The Catalogue also includes special and fonds listings of manuscripts compiled by Department staff; at the same time as work is performed on domestic collections, research is also undertaken abroad and grants are utilized systematically for these tasks. At present the Department is undertaking a long-term Czech Science Foundation research project A Corpus of Codicological Sources. Since 1962 the Department has published a Manuscript Studies, the only specialist Czech codicological periodical. Since the second year a permanent feature has been a bibliographical Czech Codicological Literature supplement. For more extensive texts the Monographia Series was launched in the mid-1990s. The Department works together with other research establishments, institutes of higher education and institutes administering manuscript collections.

Chair

Dr. Phil. Rudolf Kučera, Ph.D.
Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1
Tel. 234 612 222
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This Department focuses on research into modern Czech society and the Czech Lands in the context of the history of the Central European region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Research centres around the history of conceptions of democracy and Czech statehood, parliamentarianism, partihood, political culture, political ideology and nationalism. This research takes place within the interdisciplinary context of historical and literary studies, political philosophy, politology and gender studies. Research interest primarily focuses on the life and work of T. G. Masaryk and E. Beneš, whose personal papers are in the care of the Masaryk Institute and Archive. An important area of activity at the Department consists in making primary sources of personal and institutional provenance on modern Czech history available through publications. As publication projects (Selected Writings of TGM, publication of TGM Correspondence) are completed, editorial theory and methodology are also developed. Alongside these projects, extensive source and guaranteed bibliographic databases are being compiled on the basis of innovative approaches to provide an online information service. The Department is dealing with several research projects, the most important of which is Edvard Beneš, the Germans and Germany Edvard Beneš, the Germans and Germany. With the support of the Czech Science Foundation and the Academy of Sciences Grant Agency, research is under way on the following subjects: Munich in the memoirs of contemporary witnesses; The First Republic in the light of correspondence between T. G. Masaryk and E. Beneš; Work, nation and gender – the workers' movement in the Czech Lands 1914–1918; and Czechoslovak-Austrian relations 1918-1938.

Chair

PhDr. Martin Franc, Ph.D.
Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha 8
Tel.: 286 010 123
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This Department focuses on research into the history of science with special emphasis on the history of research institutes and researchers, together with associated methodological and theoretical issues. Its priority is to deal with the history of the ASCR
and its predecessors, the way science and scholarship are reflected within society, science policy conceptions and the development of relations between university and nonuniversity science and scholarship. Within this subject area it also coordinates scholarly research activities at the Masaryk Institute and Archive. It primarily brings out the results of its research work in special series published by the Institute and in well-known domestic and foreign periodicals and series. We work together with research and higher education establishments both at home and abroad. A research grant project on prominent CSAS representative and official Ivan Málek and science policy 1952-1989 has been completed. Members of the Department also take part in the Czech Science Foundation projects Josef Pfitzner – from history to ideology and Seeking the centre – German research and educational institutions in Bohemia in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The popular-science publication Bohemia docta on the history of non-university research institutes in the Czech Lands from the 18th century to the present has won acclaim in scholarly circles and among the broader public.

Chairman

prof. PhDr. Ivan Šedivý, CSc.
deputy director for scholary research activity, MÚA AV ČR, v. v. i., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Deputy Chairwoman

PhDr. Marie Bahenská, Ph.D.
deputy director for archive activity, MÚA AV ČR, v. v. i., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Internal members

PhDr. Jan Hálek, Ph.D.

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PhDr. Ota Konrád, Ph.D.

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Mgr. Lucie Merhautová, Ph.D.
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External members

PhDr. Eva Drašarová, CSc.
director of the Národní archiv ČR, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

doc. Mgr. Libuše Heczková, Ph.D.

deputy director of the Ústav české literatury a literární vědy FF UK, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

prof. PhDr. Jiří Kocian, CSc.
vědecký pracovník Ústavu soudobých dějin AV ČR, v. v. i., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

doc. PhDr. Petr Svobodný, Ph.D.

director of the Ústav dějin Univerzity Karlovy a archiv Univerzity Karlovy UK, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Council Secretary

PhDr. Martina Hrdinová, Ph.D.
MÚA AV ČR, v. v. i., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Members of the Council, 2007-2011