PT Journal
AU Koucka, I
TI Educational Career and Activity of Prof. Josef Dobias
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2021
BP 85
EP 115
VL 60
IS 1
DI 10.5507/ho.2021.004
DE Josef Dobias; ancient history; educational career and activity; secondary school and university teaching
AB The article presented here mainly deals with the secondary school and university teaching career of Prof. Josef Dobias (1888-1972), who worked at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University between 1920-1958 and who became the first Czech full professor of ancient Greek and Roman history (1930). The final chapter of the article also compares the educational activities of Josef Dobias with those of other contemporary university teachers active in the field of ancient history (Prof. Emanuel Simek, Prof. Vladimir Groh, Prof. Vojtech Ondrouch). This article is based primarily on an analysis of archival sources, especially Josef Dobias's unprocessed collection stored at the Masaryk Institute and the Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences.Although Josef Dobias prioritised his academic work over his work as a teacher, the collection provides us with a detailed overview of his teaching career. It also demonstrates that his lectures and specialised seminars on the topics of his personal academic work clearly left a positive impression on his students. Especially in the period after the Second World War, J. Dobias helped educate a number of other specialists in the individual sub-disciplines related to the study of the antiquity.
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