Antonín Rezek
Antonín Rezek (born January 13, 1853 in Jindřichův Hradec , † February 4, 1909 in Prague ) was a Czech historian and politician in Austria-Hungary .
Life
Antonín Rezek grew up as the son of a watchmaker. He completed his history studies at the Charles University in Prague in 1876 with a doctorate. He then worked at the National Museum in Prague and taught as a high school professor from 1878. In 1883 he became an associate professor and in 1888 he received a call for Austrian history at the Czech University in Prague as the successor to his teacher Václav Tomek . With Jaroslav Goll he built up the historical seminar and was involved in the training of the first generation of the so-called Goll School . As a historian, he mainly worked on the 17th century.
In 1896 Rezek was appointed to the " cisleithan " Ministry of Education in Vienna , headed by Baron Gautsch , and in 1897 was promoted to head of section . From 1900 to 1903 he was minister without portfolio in the Koerber Ministry . As the Czech compatriot minister, he had the task of mediating in the complex network of German-Czech relations. The establishment of the Czech Technical University in Brno was a success . When the Young Czechs demanded the official Czech language in the Reichsrat , this was rejected by Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber in 1903 , and Rezek resigned to strengthen his compatriots. In 1904 he became a member of the Bohemian Landtag , but had to give up his job for health reasons.
From 1891, Rezek was a member of the Bohemian Academy of Emperor Franz Joseph for Science, Spoken Word and Art and was also accepted into the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences . The University of Saint Petersburg awarded him an honorary doctorate .
Fonts (selection)
- Dějiny Čech a Moravy nové doby I., II. , 1892
- Dějiny vlády Ferdinanda I. v Čechách , 1877
- History of the government of Ferdinand I in Bohemia . Prague, J. Otto, 1878
- Tomáš G. Masaryk ; Antonín Rezek: Korespondence , Masarykův Ústav, Praha 2011 (Czech)
literature
- Richard Georg Plaschka : From Palacky to Pekař , with an afterword by Heinrich Felix Schmid. H. Böhlaus Nachf., Graz, 1955
- K. Kučera: Rezek Antonín. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 108 f. (Direct links on p. 108 , p. 109 ).
- Bohumil Jiroušek: Antonín Rezek , biography, Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, 2002 (Czech)
Web links
- Literature by and about Antonín Rezek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Antonín Rezek in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Georg Plaschka: From Palacky to Pekař , 1955, pp. 51-55
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rezek, Antonín |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rezek, Antonin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech historian and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jindřichův Hradec |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1909 |
| Place of death | Prague |