PROFESOR VÁCLAV VOJTÍŠEK: KONTINUITA KARIÉRY JEDNOHO ARCHIVÁŘE
PROFESSOR VÁCLAV VOJTÍŠEK. CONTINUITY OF THE CAREER OF ONE ARCHIVIST

Summary/Abstract: The contribution is devoted to a significant personality of the Czech archival science and pedagogue of the Archival School professor Václav Vojtíšek. Owing to the fact that he lived to the age of ninety-one and was active in his field of work till the end of his life, he is an ideal person reflecting development in the academic sphere. At the beginning of his career he swore an official oath to the hands of Emperor Franz Joseph I, and at the end of it there was his workplace in ČSAV (Czech Academy of Sciences) confronted with armed intervention of the Warsaw Pact. In such a context I will try to find an answer to the question how Václav Vojtíšek managed to adapt himself to all regimes, except the Nazi occupation, in spite of the fact that his personality was stubborn and he himself did not subordinate all to prosperity chances. For a number of historians and archivists, Václav Vojtíšek has been just one name from many other of Czech historiography and archival science. It is a pity considering the colourfulness of his life. In this contribution I would like to present a few chosen entries of Václav Vojtíšek to “great history” and try to draw his image in historical memory in more details besides answers to the outlined questions.

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