Československá egyptologie ve světě studené války – doba Zbyňka Žáby

• Authors: Jůnová Macková Adéla , Navrátilová Hana

Title variants

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Czechoslovak Egyptology in the world of the Cold War – the Žába era

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Zbyněk Žába’s (1917–1971) anniversary reminds us of several decades of history of Czechoslovak Egyptology which was tied very closely to individual scholarly biographies and only relatively recently obtained an institutional history. Aspects of the life of Žába, who was sometimes viewed as a controversial figure, are set against the backdrop of coeval events. The contribution highlights some paradoxes inherent to a work of an international scholar tied to a country on the Soviet side of the Iron curtain, including his attempts to balance the requirements of a national institutional scholarship and the inherently international character of his discipline. The foundations for the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology were laid successfully in the complex period of the late 1950s.

Keywords

CS

Zbyněk Žába; Jaroslav Černý; egyptologie; Československý egyptologický ústav; Abúsír; Topografická bibliografie; Češi v Egyptě; dějiny egyptologie; socialismus; Československo

EN

Zbyněk Žába; Jaroslav Černý; Egyptology; Czecho -slovak Institute of Egyptology; Abusir; Topographical Bibliography; Czechs in Egypt; history of Egyptology; socialism; Czechoslovakia

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY
• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Pražské egyptologické studie (Prague Egyptological Studies)
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 12-23

Contributors

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Jůnová Macková Adéla

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd České republiky, v.v.i

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Navrátilová Hana

• University of Reading