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The following article comments on a private letter sent by Milada Paulova to the wife of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Hana Benesova in 1945. In this document Paulova demands explanation why she has not received a letter of appointment to professorship proposed in 1938-1939. In the letter, she describes her own life conditions in the post-war period. Paulova explains her help to T. G. Masaryk, E. Benes and P. Samal and collaboration with them in the pre-war period and reminds her of the fact that she was repressed by the Gestapo during occupation because she had hidden the archives of Maffia.
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The aim of this paper is to present the memoirs of Milada Paulova. The study consists of two parts. The first part deals with the life and scientific work of Milada Paulova (1891-1970), the Czechoslovak historian and byzantologist and the first professor-woman at the Charles University. The second part presents the Paulova´s memoirs, which she started to write in the year 1962. She remembers her childhood in Darenice, her adulthood in Prague, where she studied at the Charles University, and her first steps on the field of science. Of great importance in Paulova´s life was her meeting professor Jaroslav Bidlo. After the First World War she started to study the Czechoslovak-Yugoslav relations. After her study trip in Yugoslavia in the years 1920-1921, she started write and complete her two famous books - 'Jugoslavenski odbor' (1925) and 'Dejiny Maffie' (1937-1939). After the Second World War, M. Paulova shifted her scientific interest from the contemporary history to the Byzantine studies. She established numerous professional contacts with colleagues from various countries, at the first place with her lady friend - professor Joan Hussey, the British byzantologist.
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The article deals with explication of the term Byzantinism from its origins to the contemporary days. The authoress analyses this term and its reflection in foreign (i.e. French, English and German) and Czech scholastic literature, especially in philosophical works and historiography from the mid-18th until the 20th century. On this basis, she focuses on explication of negative connotations of the term Byzantinism, bringing forth new aspects. She concludes that from the historical point of view, its negative connotation is not well-founded in political and journalistic speech.
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The essay maps relationships of particular members of the Jirecek family with the architect and patron of the Czech science, Josef Hlavka. It hints on some less known aspects of the Czech Academy of the Sciences and the Arts (CAVU) origin and suggests that the Jirecek family was very friendly with the Hlavka family. Of the Jirecek family, Josef Jirecek was the closest to Josef Hlavka and the person most strongly linked with the establishment of CAVU. His work for the architect and builder Josef Jirecek, his role as Hlavka's expert adviser and lawyer, his considerate influence on Hlavka and empathy with his conditions and problems have not yet received appropriated attention. J. Jirecek participated in preparatory phases of establishing the CAVU: he talked Hlavka out of selling the Luzany estate and thus had merit in maintaining one of the principal sources of its financing. He prepared for Hlavka dedicative documents for establishing a foundation, which supported Czech science and art. Unlike his brother Hermenegild and son Konstantin, Josef Jirecek did not become a member of CAVU, because he died in 1888 and did not live to see its official establishment in 1892. The relation between Josef Hlavka and Hermenegild Jirecek had a character of mutual admiration. Konstantin Jirecek tended to regard the patron of Czech science with disrespect, which is a common practice with young generation.
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From the correspondence and diary entries of Konstantin Jirecek it is clear that the beginning of his stay in post-war Bulgaria, where he participated in restoration of Bulgarian educational system and scholarship between 1879 and 1884, were gruesome. He had to overcome not only harsh physical conditions, but also his inner disapproval with some political and religious circumstances and waged a war against bureaucracy. Although he had many friends in Bulgaria, enjoyed a good relationship with the country and had merit in post-war Bulgarian education, he viewed many issues with his inborn scepticism and pessimism.
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