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This book follows the overlaps of the relatively autonomous sports field and other social fields (journalistic, state-bureaucratic, artistic, academic) in Bohemian Lands/Czechoslovakia. The whole uncovers a surprising richness of sport in... more
This book follows the overlaps of the relatively autonomous sports field and other social fields (journalistic, state-bureaucratic, artistic, academic) in Bohemian Lands/Czechoslovakia. The whole uncovers a surprising richness of sport in the period when it started to establish itself as a significant modern cultural and social phenomenon, interfering in the furthest corners of our lives. Contrary to a majority of books on sports, this volume is not meant for sport enthusiasts. Moreover it is dedicated to those, who are astonished by its position on the pedestal and by its omnipresence and want to understand the historical background of this situation.
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History of sport; Opava (Troppau); Austrian Silesia; History of skating
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Maria Stona (1859-1944); Salonière; Austrian/Czechoslovak Silesia; Strzebowitz; Arthur Schnitzler; Richard von Schaukal; Richard Kralik; Bertha von Suttner; Georg Brandes; Theodor Herzl; Ludwig Jacobowski; Franz Theodor Csokor; Carry... more
Maria Stona (1859-1944); Salonière; Austrian/Czechoslovak Silesia; Strzebowitz; Arthur Schnitzler; Richard von Schaukal; Richard Kralik; Bertha von Suttner; Georg Brandes; Theodor Herzl; Ludwig Jacobowski; Franz Theodor Csokor; Carry Hauser; Rudolf Steiner; Ernst Haeckel; William Flinders Petrie; Bartholomäus von Carneri; Hermann
Bahr; Peter Rosegger; Stefan Zweig; Karl Kraus; Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach; Marie Eugenie delle Grazie; Melanie Klein; Ida von Gutmann; Dora von Stockert-Meynert; Helene Zelezny-Scholz
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Rudolf Korb: On the history of Nature Conservation in Bohemia
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Czech mountaineers were organized in Czech section of the Slovene Alpine Club since 1897. They even built two huts in Slovene Alps and understood themselves as the heralds of common Slav cultural work. The section was dissoluted after... more
Czech mountaineers were organized in Czech section of the Slovene Alpine Club since 1897. They even built two huts in Slovene Alps and understood themselves as the heralds of common Slav cultural work. The section was dissoluted after 1918 when separate countries, Czechoslovakia and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were founded.
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Allschlaraffia was an association of humorist clubs, Schlaraffia, wchich had expanded to several countries in Europe, North America and Asia by the beginning of WWI. Prior to WWI there were 175 of them. This paper focuses on the... more
Allschlaraffia was an association of humorist clubs, Schlaraffia, wchich had expanded to several countries in Europe, North America and Asia by the beginning of WWI. Prior to WWI there were 175 of them. This paper focuses on the topography and scoial profile of the organisation.
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Erwin Hanslik (1880–1940), a native of the Silesian-Galician border region, was the head of the Institut für Kulturforschung in Vienna during the First World War. At that time the institute was focused on issues of identity, loyalty, and... more
Erwin Hanslik (1880–1940), a native of the Silesian-Galician border region, was the head of the Institut für Kulturforschung in Vienna during the First World War. At that time the institute was focused on issues of identity, loyalty, and propaganda. Hanslik was a private assistant professor at the University of Vienna sponsored by the owner of Kunín Estate, Viktor Bauer, and his ‘anthropo-geographical’ defences of the
idea of Austria (e.g. ‘Österreich. Erde und Geist’) won him a number of notable followers, such as Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka and Romain Rolland. His visions even attracted Egon Schiele, whose illustrations accompanied some of Hanslik’s writings. Despite the quasi-scientific nature of his work, Hanslik was one of the few people in the time before the collapse of the Monarchy who attempted to answer the question, ‘Who are the Austrians?' Unlike Richard Coudenhove-Kallergi, he rejected the very existence of a Central Europe and justified the preservation of the Empire on the grounds of the need to unite eastern and western Europe as two parts that fit together like a dovetail (or in the original German, Verzahnung). This study identifies the roots of Hanslik’s opinions
as lying in the unique environment of his Polish-German-Czech-Jewish-Schlonzaken home town in the foothills of the Beskydy Mountains.
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Burgher law remained as one of the residua of the estates through the whole constitutional era of the Habsburg Monarchy. The study probes the conditions of granting and removing burgher law and observes its social importance between the... more
Burgher law remained as one of the residua of the estates through the whole constitutional era of the Habsburg Monarchy. The study probes the conditions of granting and removing burgher law and observes its social importance between the years 1848 and 1918 using the example of the town of Opava. The findings are compared with the knowledge of selected Cisleithanien towns. Despite the undeniable decline of the institution in the second half of the 19th century, the continuity of understanding the burgher law as a form of social security and confirmation of social status or social prestige was found especially with old middle class.
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This paper traces the history of brothels in former Austrian Silesia, namely the Port Arthur "Etablissement" in Opava/Troppau.
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This paper reveals that Kasinogarten was actually the first public park in the former capital of Austrian Silesia, Opava/Troppau, founded at the end of the Eighteenth Century on a river island.
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This paper deals with Figure Skating World Championship held in Opava /Troppau 1908.
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This paper is dedicated to the history of the section Silesia (Opava/Troppau) of the German and Austrian Alpine Club which existed from 1886 to 1945 in the former capital of Austrian (Czechoslovak) Silesia.
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This paper traces the relations between Pohorská jednota Radhošť and Klub československých turistů (centre-periphery problem) in Czech hiking movement.
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This papers deals with the history of the Magazine for history and cultural history of Austrian-Silesia that was published between 1905 and 1933.
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This paper deals with Czech-Slovene alpine clubs ethnic cooperation in the last decades of Austria-Hungary.
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This paper describes three concepts of a national (potentially Olympic) stadium in Prague that coined the debates about the central sporting site in the inter-war Czechoslovakia.
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Schlaraffia prankster-societies are shown as an exclusive network both ironizing and adoring the (male) bourgois social order.
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The catalogue entry follows the history of two paintings by Augusto Giacometti that were confiscated in Maria Stona´s castle of Třebovice after WWII.
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This article deals with the life of the founder of organized hiking in Bohemian Lands, Johann Stüdl, head of the Prague Alpenverein 1870-1920.
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The decree of Austro-Hungarian minister of education from 15 th September 1890 No. 19097 (so called Spielerlaß or "Gautsch's Decree") significantly influenced not only school physical education but also the development of sport in the... more
The decree of Austro-Hungarian minister of education from 15 th September 1890 No. 19097 (so called Spielerlaß or "Gautsch's Decree") significantly influenced not only school physical education but also the development of sport in the Czech Lands in general. As a result of the Decree, not only was sport widespread and popularized but also some important institutions of the early Czech sport were established.
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The paper reveals how early hiking clubs treated nature as a place of worship as well as a cultural project.
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K dějinám pojmu „sport“ v habsburské monarchii, Dějiny – teorie – kritika 2016, č. 2, s. 237–252.
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk a Helena Železná-Scholzová, Český časopis historický 114, 2016, č. 1, s. 116-145. V letech 1932 až 1934 plnila sochařka Helene Železny-Scholz roli důvěrnice, konverzační a korespondenční partnerky prezidenta... more
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk a Helena Železná-Scholzová, Český časopis historický 114, 2016, č. 1, s. 116-145.

V letech 1932 až 1934 plnila sochařka Helene Železny-Scholz roli důvěrnice, konverzační a korespondenční partnerky prezidenta Československé republiky Tomáše Garrigue Masaryka. O jejich přátelství jsme informováni především ze vzpomínek Masarykova osobního tajemníka Antonína Schenka. Tato studie podrobuje jeho memoáry kritice konfrontací se současným stavem poznání života umělecké osobnosti Helene Železny-Scholz.
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The reception and reaction of Czechoslovak society to the live broadcasting from FIFA World Cup 1934 is subject to questioning in this texts. Public listening to running commentaries raised the interest in sports in new social strata and... more
The reception and reaction of Czechoslovak society to the live broadcasting from FIFA World Cup 1934 is subject to questioning in this texts. Public listening to running commentaries raised the interest in sports in new social strata and geographic areas of Czechoslovakia. The broadcasting provoked listeners’ higher sensibility, that is examined on the example of rumours about the death of some Czechoslovak players. Last part of the paper is dedicated to the broadcasting of FIFA World Cup as Czechoslovak site of memory.
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Turnverein, Anti-semitism, Austrian Silesia
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Franz Hansl, coach of the Austrian football national team at the World Championship 1934, player of Wiener Amateur-Verein (WAS), later Austria Wien, born in Opava, died in Italy. Article: Franz Hansl, trenér rakouské fotbalové... more
Franz Hansl, coach of the Austrian football national team at the World Championship 1934, player of Wiener Amateur-Verein (WAS), later Austria Wien, born in Opava, died in Italy. Article:  Franz Hansl, trenér rakouské fotbalové reprezentace, Region Opavsko 12. 9. 2017, s. 6.
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Interesting Sports Personalities: Rudolf Praznowsky, Figure-Skater, multiple Czechoslovak champion, trainer, native of Opava, immigrant to Switzerland
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Interesting Sports Personalities: Oskar Hoppe, Figure Skater, 3rd at the 1927 World Championship (Pairs), native of Opava
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Interesting Sports Personalities: Otto Gold, figure-skater, trainer, 2nd at the 1930 European Championship, trained Olympics Winners and world Champions (among others Barbara Ann Scott, Donald Jackson and Dorothy Hamill), native of... more
Interesting Sports Personalities: Otto Gold, figure-skater, trainer, 2nd at the 1930 European Championship, trained Olympics Winners and world Champions (among others Barbara Ann Scott, Donald Jackson and Dorothy Hamill), native of Ostrava, raised in Opava, immigrant to Canada
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Interesting Sports Personalities: Ice-hockey player Erwin Lichnofsky, participant at the St. Moritz 1928 Winter Olympics for team Czechoslovakia, European Champion 1929, native of Opava/Troppau, died in Munich
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Maria Stona; Bertha von Suttner; Pacifism; Silesia; Salon
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The article discovers the life of the first Olympic medal winner from Bohemian, Hedwig Rosenbaum, a tennis player form Prague who ended up 3rd in singles and mixed double at the 1900 Olympics in Paris.
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Meteorological columns; Silesia; Wetterhäuschen
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Josef Maria Stowasser (1854 Opava – 1910 Vienna), was a secondary school teacher. He has become famous for his Latin-German dictionary. This paper explores his Silesian background and his putative family relationship with Friedensreich... more
Josef Maria Stowasser (1854 Opava – 1910 Vienna), was a secondary school teacher. He has become famous for his Latin-German dictionary. This paper explores his Silesian background and his putative family relationship with Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
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Interesting Czech texts´ on sports form the period prior to 1939.
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