František Kutnar

František Kutnar (born October 7, 1903 in Mlázovice ; † September 11, 1983 there ) was an important Czech historian.

Kutnar, who worked as a teacher at a middle school, was also considered a recognized researcher, educator and writer. Among other things, he was chairman of the Historical Club in Prague. In 1994, Kutnar was appointed in memoriam professor of Czech and Slovak history at the Charles University in Prague .

In his research he mainly dealt with the topic of the national rebirth of the Czechs . He approached the topics in a structured manner and often dealt with detailed questions. He wrote some small papers, as well as amounts for trade magazines and daily newspapers. He turned his attention to collective facts, social development and the intellectual progress of national rebirth. Works by Josef Šusta and Josef Pekař , both of which had a great influence on him, also led him to sociology and psychology. He often used the most modern histographic methods.

His most important contribution was a draft of the functional-structural analysis. He viewed every fact as a complicated structural whole made up of parts, each of which fulfills a function in itself and is related to others. When relationships change, he says, the fact itself changes too. From the perspective of historiography , he examined the social process during the national rebirth, the time of the Reformation and the era of declining feudalism at the beginning of the 19th century.

Web links

• Literature by and about František Kutnar in the catalog of the German National Library