Josef Jirásek jako slovakista a souvislosti
| Title in English | Josef Jirasek |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Philologica LXVII |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | The Czech Slovakist Josef Jirásek L. Štúr and Das Slawenthum und die Welt der Zukunft F. Wollman Albert Pražák Alexander Machs memoirs |
| Description | The author of the present article deals with the Czech – Slovak ideological triangle in which the key-role was played by the specialist in Russian, general Slavonic and Slovak studies Josef Jirásek ((1884-1972), the editor of the German original of Štúr‘s treatise Das Slawenthum und die Welt der Zukunft (Bratislava 1931) and the author of a special book devoted to Slovakia and to Slovak and Czech-Slovak problems published just after the Second World War. The comparison of the views in Albert Pražák’s and Alexander Mach’s memoirs as well as in Jirásek’s book Slovensko na rozcestí 1918-1938 (Slovakia at the Crossroads 1918-1938) show the substantial differences between the three authors and the lack of the attention paid by he Czechs to a more national wing of Slovak social thought which used to be ignored by Czech politicians both before and after the Second World War. The author is convinced that various misunderstandings between the Czechs and the Slovaks were caused – besides other factors – by this ignorance. |