František Kovárna In-Between Education, Journalism, and Politics: During the Interwar Era and the Protectorate Cover Image

František Kovárna mezi vzdělaností, publicistikou a politikou – v meziválečném období a za protektorátu
František Kovárna In-Between Education, Journalism, and Politics: During the Interwar Era and the Protectorate

Author(s): Marek Suk
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Education, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1939 - 1949), History of Art
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: František Kovárna; education; Czechoslovakia; Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia; Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University; editorial work; journalism; censorship

Summary/Abstract: This study tracks the public activities of František Kovárna (1905–1952), an important personality of the history of education during the First and Second Czechoslovak Republic and the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Unlike earlier studies, which dealt with Kovárna’s role in the history of art, this contribution focuses on his hitherto little-studied journalistic activities and work in the editing boards of art periodicals, especially the Svazky úvah a studií. The author shows how Kovárna linked these activities with his university studies and later with his academic work at university. Analysed are also his perspicacious insights into totalitarian regimes and into life in the First Czechoslovak Republic.

  • Issue Year: 65/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 77-93
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech
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