HISTORIK JOSEF POLIŠENSKÝ, JEHO STUDIUM NA ARCHIVNÍ ŠKOLE A JAKÉ MĚLO NÁSLEDKY
HISTORIAN JOSEF POLIŠENSKÝ, HIS STUDIES AT THE ARCHIVAL SCHOOL AND THE CONSEQUENCES

Summary/Abstract: In 1937, Josef Polišenský, as the 3rd year student of history at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, applied for studying in the eighth course of the State Archival School. He was accepted and successfully graduated after three years of study. He appreciated the high standard of the School and used the gained knowledge later in his own historical works. After World War II, Josef Polišenský worked at two universities, besides Historical Seminar at Prague University he had given lectures at the University of Olomouc since 1947. He also organised regular holiday holiday trainings in the archives for the students of both the faculties during which he could gather a lot of material for his Otázky studia obecných dějin (The Questions of General History Studies) published in 1958. Surprisingly, this still very useful publication which points at the sources to general history in the Czechoslovak archives was not accepted only positively. František Graus sharply criticised Polišenský’s attitude during debate in the Department of General History in May 1958, classifying it to be a warning example of archival historiography which seeks for the topics only according to the preserved material. The final part of this study is devoted to the above-mentioned dispute.

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