Češi a české národní hnutí v kašubské vlastenecké agitaci (do r. 1918)
Czechs and the Czech National Movement in the Kashubian Patriotic Agitation (until 1918)

Summary/Abstract: The paper expands upon the role of the Czech national movementand the Czech nation or Czech cultural situation in the Kashubian patrioticdiscourse from the first half of the 19th century until the First World War. Itfocuses primarily on the period in which it had a direct influence on the „initiation“of the Kashubian patriotic campaign when the founder of the Kashubianmovement, Florian Ceynowa, was studying under Czech professors (J. E.Purkyně, F. L. Čelakovský) in Wroclaw (in the 1840s), as well as on Ceynowa’ssubsequent contacts with other members of the Czech national movementuntil the 1860s. Afterwards, the Kashubian campaign paused in its reflectionof the Czech movement. The paper thus then concentrates on the next phaseof reflection beginning in the early 20th century, especially in the contextof the Young Kashubian program (A. Majkowski, J. Karnowski, K. Kantak).Appreciable ambivalences appear: the Czech movement, and Czechs in general,on the one hand was a paradigmatic example of the successful formationof a modern nation by a formerly non-dominant ethnic group as well as ofdynamic social, cultural, and economic development, but on the other handcriticisms of the Czech mentality and Czech political strategies were voiced.

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