Geschichte von Böhmen
Grösstentheils nach Urkunden und Handschriften

The Czech historian František Palacký gives a detailed account of Bohemian history, published in German in ten parts (1836–67).

František Palacký (Author)

9781108054997, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

558 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.7 kg

A highly influential Czech historian and politician, František Palacký (1798–1876) became in 1825 the first editor of the journal of the Bohemian Museum, a key cultural institution in the development of Czech nationalism. He was actively involved in the nineteenth-century Czech national revival, helping also to found the Czech national theatre. Entering politics in 1848, he served as president of the Prague Slavic Congress, and later became a member of the Austrian senate as a supporter of greater Czech autonomy. In this extensive work, comprising ten separate parts - published in German between 1836 and 1867 - Palacký gives a detailed account of Bohemian history until 1526. It remains an important and ambitious feat of scholarship, still relevant to students of central European history. Volume 4 deals with the era of George of Pod?brady; this first part (1857) covers the years 1439–57.

Neuntes Buch. Das grosse Interregnum in Böhmen und König Ladislaw (vom Jahre 1439–57): 1. Erste Versuche einer Königswahl (vom Jahre 1439 bis 1440)
2. Anarchie, bei Ptacek's Übermacht (vom Jahre 1440 bis 1444)
3. Anarchie, bei Georgs von Podiebrad Übermacht (vom Jahre 1444 bis 1448)
4. Kämpfe nach der Einnahme Prags - wachsende Macht Georg's von Podiebrad (vom Jahre 1448 bis 1451)
5. Georg von Podiebrad Landesverweser (vom Jahre 1451 bis 1453)
6. Regierung des Königs Ladislaus Posthumus (vom Jahre 1453 bis 1457)
7. Von der Literatur, den Secten, Kriegsrotten und Sitten des böhmischen Volkes im Zeitalter Podiebrads.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]