PHILOLOGY, LITERARY SCIENCE AND HISTORY, ORIENTAL STUDIES, SLAVONIC STUDIES - personal papers

Ladislav Brtnický (*1858, +1936) - classical philologist, 4 boxes, 1873-1939, inventory

Adolf Černý [pseudonym Jan Rokyta ] (*1864, +1952) - Slavonic scholar, ethnographer, historian, 117 boxes + 1 package, 1860s-1950s, take-over list

Rudolf Dvořák (*1860, +1920) - Oriental scholar, 9 boxes, 1872-1939, inventory

Jan Gebauer (*1838, +1907) - philologist (Slavonic languages), literary historian, concentrated on older Czech literature and historical grammar, had a strong influence in disputes over the authenticity of the Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts, worked together closely with T. G. Masaryk. 1 box, 1866-1956, inventory

František Groh (*1863, +1940) - classical philologist, Greek and Latin epigraphist, 1 box, 1900-1932, inventory


Transcription of a prayer to the goddess Ishtar (with transliteration and translation into Czech) from Bedřich Hrozný´s personal papers

Illustration table for the summary work on 'Magic in ancient Egypt' by František Lexa (from his personal papers)

Letter from Rabindranath Tagore addressed to Vincenc Lesný including his reactions to post-Munich developments (from V. Lesný´s personal papers)

Title page from the Humoristické listy magazine from Jiří Horák´s personal papers

 

Jiří Horák (*1884, +1975) - eminent Czech Slavonic scholar, literary historian and folklorist, 1957 - 1964 Director of the CSAS Institute for Ethnography and Folklore Studies, 1945 - 1948 Czechoslovak Ambassador to the USSR, concentrated on comparative history of Slavonic literatures, folklore studies and the history of Czech Ethnography. 143 boxes, end 16 th cent.-1984, inventory (for 118 boxes)

Bedřich Hrozný (*1879, +1952) - world-famous Czech Oriental scholar, founder of Hittite studies, deciphered Hittite cuneiform and proved the Indo-European origin of this language, he was responsible for a number of other discoveries and co-founded the Oriental Institute in Prague. 11 boxes, 1897-1953, inventory

Eduard Kastner (*1845, +1909) - classical philologist,1 box, second half of 20 th cent., unarranged

Arnošt Vilém Kraus (*1859, +1943) - eminent Czech German scholar, focused on German-Czech literary ties, Goethe's relationship with Bohemia and the history of the Faust myth, during the German occupation he was deported to the Terezín ghetto where he died. 8 boxes, 1874-1942, inventory

Otakar Kunstovný (*1884, +1945), linguist, 1 box, 1 st half of 20 th cent., take-over list

Vincenc Lesný (*1882, +1953), Oriental scholar - indologist, 1945 - 1952 Director of the Oriental Institute in Prague, studied Central Indian and Modern Indian languages, esp. Prakrit and Marathi, Ancient Persian and Romany either, also researched in Buddhism, translated mostly from Sanskrit, Pali and Bengali, a friend of Rabindranath Thakur, Nobel prizewinner for literature. 17 boxes, 1894-1955, inventory

František Lexa (*1876, +1960) - founder of modern Czech Egyptology, founder and Director (1958 - 1960) of the Egyptology Institute at Charles University in Prague, focused on Egyptian literature and realia. 35 boxes, 1860-1976, inventory

František Novotný (*1881, +1964) - classical philologist, 16 boxes, 1889-1964, inventory

Jan Petr (*1931, +1989) - linguist (general linguistics), Slavonic scholar, 9 boxes, 1930s-1980s, unarranged

Vincenc Pořízka (*1905, +1982) - Oriental scholar - indologist, 67 boxes + 21 suitcases + 4 cases, 20 th cent. (to 1980s), take-over list

Jan Rypka (*1886, +1968) - Oriental scholar, world-famous expert in Persian and Turkish literature, founding member of the Oriental Institute in Prague. 48 boxes + 5 tubes + 25 card-file indexes, 1886-1968, inventory and list of additions

Antonín Salač (*1885, +1960) - classical philologist, 38 boxes, 1880s-1960s, unarranged

Ferdinand Stiebitz (*1894, +1961) - classical philologist, 12 boxes, 2 nd half of 19 th cent. -1960s, take-over list

Jan Svoboda (*1899, +1973) - linguist, onomasticist, 2 boxes, 1920s.-1970s, take-over list

Karel Svoboda (*1888, +1960) - classical philologist, 2 boxes, 1959-1960, inventory

Ladislav Štoll (*1902, +1981) - literary theoretician and aesthetician, 85 boxes, 1930s-1970s, unarranged

Bohumil Vavroušek (*1875, +1939) - literary historian and art historian, 9 boxes, 1892-1946, inventory

Václav Vážný (*1892, +1966) - linguist (Czech), dialectologist, 12 boxes, 1901-1968, inventory

Moriz Winternitz (*1863, +1937) - Oriental scholar- indologist, professor of Indian studies at the German university in Prague, lived and lectured in India for a long period of time, author of many works (including a three-volume work on the history of Indian literature and a study of Ghandi), member of numerous scholarly institutes incl. the American Oriental Society. Like V. Lesný, he was a friend of Rabindranath Thakur. 39 boxes + 1 package, 1880s-1930s, unarranged

Josef Zubatý (*1855, +1931) - eminent Czech linguist (Indo-European comparative linguistics), the author of valuable historical-comparative works on Indo-European languages, Old Indic, Baltic and Slavonic languages and on Czech, 1923-1931 CASA President. 44 boxes + 1 file, 1863-1961, inventory