JOSEF VOLF, NEVŠEDNÍ ŽIVOT A OSUDY KONOPIŠŤSKÉHO ARCHIVÁŘE
JOSEF VOLF, AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND FATE OF AN ARCHIVIST IN KONOPIŠTĚ

Summary/Abstract: The paper is trying primarily to put together the life of Josef Volf, especially based on his personal memoirs, ego documents and personal documents that make part of his personal papers housed in the State Regional Archives in Prague. In the background of Volf’s life, it is possible to go through the most important events in the Czechoslovak history of the last century. The other perspective in the text is the “propagation” of the memoirs of Josef Volf as an information source for the history of the Austrian-Hungarian and Czechoslovak Gendarmerie, regional history of Benešov region, creation of the independent Czechoslovak state, microhistory of various parts of Slovakia in 1920s and 1930s and, last but not least, the history of agriculture and forestry archiving. Apart from this, thanks to Josef Volf, a lot of historical photographs with a priceless information value have been preserved till today.

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