VÁCLAV HRUBÝ A ARCHIVNÍ ŠKOLA
VÁCLAV HRUBÝ AND THE ARCHIVAL SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: A reconstruction of the life and work of Václav Hrubý is complicated because of the fact that most probably his legacy has not been preserved. He was a con-temporary with Václav Vojtíšek and Vladimír Klacanda; a director of the School, Gustav Friedrich was his university teacher as well as Václav Novotný who gave lectures at the School. Václav Hrubý had worked in the Archives of the Bohemian Land Museum (Archiv českého zemského muzea) since the autumn 1909 and he stood at its head from 1916. Besides that, he was involved in preparation and establishing of a new historical institution since 1919, it focused on editing sources to Czech history, and he worked there from 1921. He also prepared a project for organisation of Archival School. In the case that the project has not been identical with an anonymous and a typewritten one deposited in the fond of the State Archival School in the Archives of the Charles University then it is probably lost. Václav Hrubý actively engaged in the activities of the School, he gave lectures, examined and evaluated students’ works, and also substituted the School´s secretary during his long-term absence. He participated in establishing a Society of Archival School in 1923 and co-edited the first two volumes of Časopis archivní školy (Journal of the Archival School) where he published a lot. As early as in 1920 he habilitated at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. In 1924 he left for the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History at the newly established university in Brno and thus he finished his work for the Archival School. An unfriendly rival of his Václav Vojtíšek overtook his load of lectures there and shortly after Václav Hrubý person-ally broke with his former teachers and colleagues from the Archival School Gustav Friedrich and Václav Novotný.

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