Zdeněk Václav Tobolka

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Zdeněk Václav Tobolka

Zdeněk Václav Tobolka (born June 20, 1874 in Poděbrady , † November 5, 1951 in Prague ) was a Czech historian and politician who had a great influence on the history of the Czech bibliography.

Life

After studying Czech history in the 19th century, he was strongly influenced by Jaroslav Goll and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , with whom he founded the party Česká strana lidová (realistická) . From 1906 he took an active part in political life. He became a member of the political union Young Czechs ( Mladočeši - Strana národně svobodomyslná, later Strana národně democická). Since 1911 Tobolka was a member of this party in the Reichsrat. Before the outbreak of World War I he was appointed deputy chairman of the Bohemian Confederation . During the First World War he was one of the leading figures of this league in the Vienna Imperial Council . After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , he was appointed director of the library of the National Assembly. He held this position until his retirement in 1939. In 1920 he was appointed external director of the newly founded state librarian school, and in 1927 he was the first lecturer for librarianship at Charles University in Prague , where he trained 3,376 graduates by 1939. Since 1920 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (Československá sociálně democická strana dělnická). In 1926 he organized the International Librarian Congress in Prague. For nine years he was chairman of the Association of Czechoslovak Librarians and Their Friends . In 1930 he founded the Czechoslovak Library Association (Československá knihovědná společnost). On his initiative, on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Josef Jungmann, the commission for book directories of Czechoslovak print products up to the end of the 18th century was founded. From 1931 to 1934 he edited the journal Slavic Book Studies (Slovanská knihověda).

Works

He was scientifically active in the fields of history, bibliography and books. From 1897 to 1918 he was a librarian at the Imperial-Royal Public and University Library, now the Czech National Library. In 1900 he published the first Czech trade journal for the librarianship České knihovnictví , which only appeared for one year, a second periodical appeared since 1920 with the co-editor Josef Wolf Books and Readers (Knihy a čtenáři). Between 1932 and 1937 he edited a five-volume work on the political history of the Czechoslovak nation since 1848. He was also the author of the retrospective of the Czech bibliography Knihopis .

  • O volbě a korunování Jiřího z Poděbrad . Prague 1896
  • František Palacký jako politics a history . Prague 1898
  • Knihopis československých tisků od doby nejstarší až do konce 18. století. Díl 1, Prvotisky (do r. 1500) . Prague 1925
  • Knihopis československých tisků od doby nejstarší až do konce 18. století. Díl 2, tisky z let 1501–1800 . Prague 1936–1950.
  • Dějiny československého tisku v době nejstarší . Prague 1930
  • Kniha, její vznik, vývoj a rozbor . Prague 1950
  • Národní a univerzitní knihovna v Praze, její vznik a vývoj . Prague 1959

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Regional Archives Prague, Poděbrady 54, Births 1858–1879, 463
personal data
SURNAME Tobolka, Zdeněk Václav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Poděbrady
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1951
Place of death Prague