Jan Bistřický

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Jan Bistřický in Dačice (2004)

Jan Bistřický (born June 12, 1930 in Brno , † October 21, 2008 in Dačice ) was a Czech historian , archivist , codicologist , palaeographer and diplomat .

Life

Jan Bistřický was the son of a Dačice agricultural machinery manufacturer and a school principal. From 1945 to 1949 he attended the Otokar-Březina-Gymnasium in Telč . He then studied historical auxiliary sciences at the Masaryk University in Brno . During his studies he turned to diplomacy and dealt with the documents of the Vyšehrad Collegiate Foundation . Because of his social background, he was unable to pursue a scientific university career after graduating in 1953. Therefore, he first worked in the archive for agriculture and forestry in Janovice near Rýmařov . In 1955 he moved to the State Archives in Olomouc, where he administered the archives of the Olomouc cathedral chapter and dealt particularly with the documents of Bishop Heinrich Zdík . Only in 1964 did he get a position as a research assistant to Zdeněk Kristen at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Olomouc , where he received a teaching position for history after completing his doctorate. In his scientific work he dealt mainly with the Bohemian history of the Přemyslids and the rule of the Luxembourgers in the 14th century. He paid special attention to the bishops of the Olomouc bishopric and the Olomouc cathedral chapter. Although he was aiming for a habilitation , he could not do it because he did not meet the requirements of the Marxist methodology . It was only after the political change in 1989 that he received his habilitation with a paper on the important Bishop Heinrich Zdík, who was in office from 1126 to 1250.

Since 1983 Jan Bistřický was a member of the International Commission for Diplomatics (Commission Internationale de Diplomatique) , for which he organized a colloquium in Olomouc in 1992, the results of which he published in 1998. He was also a member of the Commission for the Publication of Medieval Sources from Documentation of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Komise pro vydávání středověkých pramenů diplomatické povahy, AV ČR) .

In 2008 Jan Bistřický and the musicologist Stanislav Červenka wrote a description of the Horologium Olomucense , an illustrated manuscript that was commissioned by the Olomouc bishop Heinrich Zdík. It was published posthumously in 2011 by Stanislav Červenka, Ivo Barteček and Thomáš Bistřický.

Publications (selection)

  • Manuscript census of the Olomouc State Archives (together with Miroslav Boháček and František Čáda) : Seznam rukopisů Metropolitní kapituly v Olomouci [Directory of the manuscripts of the Metropolitan Chapter in Olomouc]. In: Státní archiv v Opavě. Průvodce po archivních fondech [State Archives in Opava . Guide through the archive holdings], Vol. 3, Prague 1961, pp. 101–177.
  • Studies of documents, letters and manuscripts by Bishop Zdík von Olomouc , 1980.
  • The chancellery and charter system of the bishops of Olomouc in the 14th century . In: Munich Contributions to Medieval Studies and Renaissance Research , Vol. 35, Munich 1985, pp. 351-360.
  • Přemyslovský palác v Olomouci [The Přemyslid Palace in Olomouc]. 2 volumes, 1988.
  • Graphic symbols in the oldest Czech documents . 1991.
  • The bishops of Olomouc . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire from 1198 to 1448 . Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 503-516.
  • The oldest settlement in the upper Thaya valley . In: The Waldviertel, magazine for local and regional history of the Waldviertel and the Wachau . 2001, No. 1, pp. 29-37.
  • Olomoucké horologium / Horologium Olomucense. Kolektář biskupa Jindřicha Zdíka . Edited with Stanislav Červenka. Olomouc 2011, ISBN 978-80-244-2446-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olomoucké horologium
personal data
SURNAME Bistřický, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian, archivist, codicologist, palaeographer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2008
Place of death Dačice