Historica Olomucensia 2 (2023), 184-200 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.011
Czechoslovakia, as the successor state of Austria-Hungary, inherited numerous problems. One of the most difficult was undoubtedly the question of the coexistence of minorities in a common state; in particular, the German minority had a considerable impact on the cohesion of the state. As a result, the newly established foreign embassies in Prague monitored the relations between Czechs and Germans closely throughout the entire period of the First Republic. The development of Czech-German relations was also monitored by the Spanish embassy, and this topic became one of the most commented on in the reports sent by diplomats to Madrid. The present study...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2023), 164-183 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.010
The Czech and Slovak National Socialists began to build a provincial party organisation in Slovakia shortly after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1919. Party structures were created mainly in eastern and western Slovakia in localities where a larger community of Czechs lived and participated in the building of modern Slovakia. While on a local and regional scale the work was quite successful, despite the negative impact of relatively frequent reorganisation, and the county-based branches of the organisational structure proved their viability in particular. The Bratislava provincial party headquarters were slow and difficult to form...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2023), 137-163 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2024.015
This case study is based on an analysis of the copies of guild articles in the cartulary of the bishops of Olomouc—Jan Dubravius and Mark Khuen—which provide an insight into the content of guild articles in subject towns located on the estates of the Olomouc bishopric. Rather than analysing all the copies of articles preserved in the cartulary of the two aforementioned bishops, the study aims to outline the functioning of selected guilds by analysing four ordinances. Each analysis of the articles is preceded by a brief outline of the economic development of the town.
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2023), 121-136 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.009
This study focuses on the process of the prosecution of Nazis and collaborators in the Jeseník region of the Czech Republic from 1945 to 1948. It focuses on the approach of the security and judicial apparatus to individual categories of the accused and on the comparison of this approach with other regions, especially in the adjacent areas of Western Silesia and Northern Moravia. In particular, the course and outcome of the trials of participants in Henlein’s Uprising of September 1938, exponents of the Nazi security apparatus, and party and public officials are followed. The research is based on court and police records and the contemporary press.
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2023), 107-120 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2024.009
This study deals with selected findings from archaeological research in a part of the cemetery of the defunct parish church of St. Peter (Olomouc, Křížkovského Street Nr. 10). This cemetery was used for burials from the Middle Ages until 1784. The described findings include grave H176, in which an individual with a growth disorder (achondroplasia) was buried sometime during the Baroque period (1650–1750) and probably with the typical appearance of disproportionate dwarfism (shorter limbs, swaying or hunching of the back). In contemporary sources, these people were referred to as nanus, pumilio, pygmaeus (Latin), der Zwerch/Zwerg (German); piedimužík,...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 104-106
Bratislava: N Press s.r.o., 2022. 175 pp.ISBN 978-80-8230-057-7
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 100-103
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 420 pp.ISBN 978-3-030-54457-7
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 97-99
Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2020. 669 pp.ISBN 978-80-7599-228-4
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 82-96 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.008
On the basis of examining a representative sample of Czech artists and intellectuals (Alois Kolísek, Jaroslav Jareš, Ľudmila Rambouská, Josef Vydra, Leopold Mazáč and Josef Polák), one can conclude that the contribution of the above-mentioned personalities to the development of modern Slovak art operated synergistically. One can note the most significant results in the development of modern visual arts and modern literature. The contribution of Czech artists and intellectuals in the development of modern Slovak art can be perceived in the following three main levels: 1. Share in the founding of new art institutions, schools and associations (e.g. the...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 72-81 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.007
Written in the middle of the twelfth century, the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice show an extensive use of Bohemian and Moravian sources, but also of foreign works. The main foreign source which the annalist had at disposal was a 'universal chronicle' which he used to relate information concerning general history until the end of the tenth century, but two entries of the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice also show influence of Regino of Prüm's Chronicle and its continuation. The analysis of the use of the Chronicon Universale as well as of Regino of Prüm's Chronicle and its continuation in the Annals of Hradisko...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 51-71 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.006
The study deals with the issue of the Moravian Pact (1905) with the example of the city of Olomouc. In the collective memory, Olomouc ranks among Moravian cities with a conflicting coexistence of Czech and German populations at the turn of the twentieth century. The aim of the study was to answer the question of whether the conclusion of the Moravian Pact (1905), which was considered to be a political reconciliation between the Moravian Germans and the Czechs, also led to the overcoming of animosity between the Czech and German population of the city in Olomouc. The choice of Olomouc was not accidental, as: 1. it was an alternative political centre...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 35-50 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.005
The presented study examines the origins of cooperation between the US President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The aim of the paper is to analyse under what conditions Nixon's administration came to office in 1969, the causes that led the new President to approach Kissinger with the offer of a key foreign policy position and what attitudes both the protagonists had towards the U.S. role in the world. Despite being an unlikely partnership, their subsequent cooperation, which operated until Nixon's resignation in August 1974, significantly changed the course of the Cold War. During Nixon's...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 11-34 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.004
Combat operations of 1945 in the Ostrava region ranked among the largest and most important military encounters of World War II in the Czech Lands. Immediately after the war, the first sites of memory appeared spontaneously. During the 1950s and 1960s, 'institutionalisation of memory' can be witnessed, based on the narrative of 'liberation' and 'Slavic brotherhood' of the Czech and Soviet population. The discussion of historians and writers about wartime controversies, which started in the era of 'destalinisation', had no important impact on the commemorative practise. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968, authorities attempted to use...
Historica Olomucensia 1 (2023), 1-10 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2023.003
Alexander Kolisko was born in Vienna in 1857, the son of obstetrician Eugen Kolisko and Luise Bach, and sister of former Minister of the Interior Alexander von Bach. After graduating from the Viennese Faculty of Medicine in 1881, he was an assistant to his mentor, Hans Kundrat, while also conducting research in pathological anatomy. He published his research in 1884 with the article Zur Kenntniss der Carcinoma psammosum ovarii. He published articles concerned with several distinct areas of his field, but his most important works focused on deformations of the pelvis (Die pathologischen Beckenformen) and sudden death from natural causes...
