Ivan Hlaváček

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Ivan Hlaváček (born May 28, 1931 in Prague ) is a Czech historian .

Ivan Hlaváček graduated from high school in Prague in 1950. From 1950 to 1955 he studied historical auxiliary sciences , archivistics and history at the Charles University in Prague . From 1955 to 1967 he was senior assistant at the chair for historical auxiliary sciences and archivistics at the Charles University in Prague. In 1966 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the documents and chancellery of the Bohemian and Roman-German King Wenceslaus . In 1967 Hlaváček became a lecturer and in 1991 a full professor of historical auxiliary sciences at the Charles University in Prague. From 1991 to 1999 he was head of the Institute for Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Archival Science and from 1991 to 1994 Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. From 1992 to 1998 Hlaváček taught as a visiting professor at the University of Konstanz .

His main research interests are the historical auxiliary sciences, diplomatics and codicology with a focus on the high and late Middle Ages and especially the Bohemian-Moravian history. Further focal points are the administrative history and the political history of the late medieval royal rule, the library history, the cultural history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period .

Hlaváček has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. In 1977 Hlaváček became a corresponding member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History and since 1993 a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he was made a member of the Academic Society of the Czech Republic . In 1999 he was Vice President of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique . The almost 90-year-old Hlaváček wrote over 500 articles in the decades of his work. He still appears as a reviewer.

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Monographs

  • The charter and chancellery of the Bohemian and Roman King Wenceslaus (IV.) 1376–1419. A contribution to late medieval diplomacy (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Vol. 23). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-7772-7003-2 (partly also: Prague, University, habilitation paper, 1967).
  • Středověké soupisy knih a knihoven v českých zemích. Přispěvek ke kulturnim dějinám českým (= Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Vol. 11). Univ. Karlova, Prague 1966.

Editorships

  • Reform of the Church and Empire at the time of the Councils of Constance (1414–1418) and Basel (1431–1449). Konstanz-Prague Historical Colloquium (October 11-17, 1993). UVK, Konstanz 1996, ISBN 3-87940-517-4 .
  • with Alexander Patschovsky : Bohemia and its neighbors in the Přemyslid period (= lectures and research. Vol. 74.) Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-6874-6 ( online )

literature

  • Ivan Hlaváček. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Konstanz working group for medieval history on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 183-197 ( online ).

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