Slaviačasopis pro slovanskou filologii

Datum publikování: 2024

Autor: Vlček, Radomír

Autor: Čermák, Václav

Abstrakt: The formation of the Brno branch department was decided on the plenary assembly of the Institute of Slavonic Studies in June 1947. However, the political development after February 1948 did change (or, at least cast doubt, on) much. Thus, the final decision to form the branch department and its first independent actions can both only be dated to June 1948. The official ceremony marking the start of the independent operation took place on November 8th, 1948. At that point the branch department had its own regular employees and external fellows. However, the Ministry of Education, Sciences and Arts, organizing the Institute of Slavonic Studiesʼ superior organization at that time, refused to register the status of the branch department, referring to the statute of the Institute. It did, nevertheless, agree with designing it as the Brno Office and Work Group. František Trávníček became the formal Chair, although the actual man in the lead was the Secretary of the Office, Josef Macůrek. This paper follows the roots and events surrounding the founding of the branch department, the early years of its existence and it explains its position during the process of incorporation of the Institute of Slavonic Studies into the structures of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. It comments on its designed field of study, its gradually growing number of both internal employees and external fellows, as well as on the tradition of close cooperation with departments of the Faculty of Arts in Brno. The study stems from previously published but very laconic information about the existence of the Brno branch department, but it is primarily founded on the research into archival sources, mainly in the funds of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Rozsah stran: s. 385–404

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0