Převrat prof. Jana Krčmáře

• Authors: Luboš Velek

Title variants

EN

The revolution of Prof.Jan Krčmář

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

On the concrete example of Jan Krčmář (professor at the Law Faculty of the Czech University), the present article describes the changing views and attitudes of Czech intellectual elites in the last years of World War I and during the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The shapping of Krčmář's attitudes is all the more interesting as he belonged to a rather narrow group within the Czech elite, which before 1914 strongly supported the Monarchy. In the personality of Krčmář, we observe not only his internal individual motives leading to a change in his former loyal or neutral views and attitudes towards the disappearing Monarchy, but also the influence of the discipline imposed by the majority of the Czech elite, which in 1917-1918 clearly identified itself with the idea of a new Czechoslovak state.

Keywords

EN

end of Habsburg monarchy; Czech intelligence; Czech law scientists; Czech writers Manifesto of 1917

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3
• Issue: Supplementum_1
• Pages: 131-143
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Luboš Velek

• Masarykův ústav a archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic