Jaroslav Bidlo and Milada Paulová: On the institutionalisation of Czech historical Slavonic studies in the first half of the 20th century

Abstract

This study follows the academic careers of Jaroslav Bidlo and Milada Paulová, focusing on their organisational activities in the realm of historical Slavonic studies. Both were professors of general history, specialising in the history of Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula at the Faculty of Philosophy (Charles University, Prague).

Their names are thus tied to the development of Czech historical Slavonic studies since their beginnings in late 19th and early 20th centuries until the 1960s.

Keywords

• historiography
• Central and Eastern Europe
• historical Slavonic studies
• history of university education, history of science
• Jaroslav Bidlo, Milada Paulov