Abstract
The doctor of medicine Josef Adolf Bulova (1839-1903) was one of the first popularizers of Darwinism in the Czech lands. Apart from the communication of Darwin's work to the Czech audience Bulova strived for the promotion of a science-oriented monistic world view, which was closely related to the ideas of the tireless propagator of Darwinism, the doctor of medicine and zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919).
Haeckel's monistic religion, which united Darwin's theory of evolution and Goethe's Naturphilosophie, was for Bulova the essential source of inspiration, although his specific pantheistically determined monistic world view represents a distinct naturphilosophical conception.