History of Czech Castellology

20. 5. 2020 We are looking for new point of view... - Castellology in Czech Republic - History of Czech Castellology History of Czech Castellology Castelology is a science exploring medieval Castles and other aristocratic residences such as fortresses, fortified settlements or crusader commandry. This complex science doctrine combines several other disciplines, such as archaeology, architecture or history. knowledges individual disciplines is then compiled in a comprehensive picture of the origin, appearance, use and history of the entire feudal residence. Frantisek Alexander Heber was born on July 19, 1815. After finishing the elementary school, Heber visited the main school in Pilsen, but the financial situation forced him to leave the school. In 1836-7 Heber be apprenticed to Seifert's widow in hers shop at Prague and other year he returned to Rokycany to Zbiroh, where he led the second shop for widow Seifert . In 1839 he married hers daughter. In 1841 Heber moved to Prague and worked on his life´s work. In June 1849 he came to Nachod town be to describe the local castle. He was troubled by the premonition of the tragedy, and indeed at the inn where he spewing the blood and he died on July 29 at the age of 34. He is buried in Nachod. Heber's work was not completed and his writings dispersed among his relatives. Nevertheless, it has become a model for other researchers and significantly influenced the famous expert of castles and fortresses of August Sedláček. The work, which puts F. A. Heber among the founders of Czech castelology and historical topography, was later relegated and remained undervalued for long time. Friedrich Bernau was born under the name of Přemysl Bačkora in a family of well-known patriotic teacher and writer Joseph Quantis Bačkora (1803–1876). He worked as an accountant in Prague's gasworks, insurance company and several sugar factories, most recently in town Plaňany. In his free time he was engaged in archeology, history and culture. He has been collaborating with Otto's vocabulary and was an active member of https://czech-archaeology-news.estranky.cz/articles/castellology-in-czech-republic/history-of-czech-castellology.html 1/5 20. 5. 2020 We are looking for new point of view... - Castellology in Czech Republic - History of Czech Castellology the Czech Museum of the Kingdom and many associations devoted to history. In 1895 he was the executive of the Archaeological Commission at ČAVU (Academy of science). Bernau was the owner of a local history and historical studies from the Czech Lands, which he wrote in Czech and German language. His work was the Album of Burgen und Schlösser im Königreiche Böhmen 1-2, published on the sequel in Žatec in 1879–1883 with illustrations by Baltazar Kutina. However, the father of Czech castelology is August Sedláček. He was born on August 28, 1843 in Mladá Vožice, in the family of a justiciar (office worker on the farm) František Sedláček (1805–1896) and his wife Františka Šember (1812 - ??). He also went to school here. On June 16, 1850 he moved with his parents to litle town Počátky (to No. 12, attended school at No. 22), where his father was transferred as position a judge to a newly established district court. He graduated in school at Jindřichův Hradec. Then he has started to study at a grammar school in Jihlava, but he was graduated to grammar school in Písek in 1863. From 1863 to 1867 he has studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague. August Sedláček be attended, among others, lectures by historians Václav Vladivoj Tomek, Antonín Gindely, Konstantin Höfler, archaeologist Jan Erazim Vocela and classical philologist Jan Kvíčala. He then worked as a high school professor of history (initially also Latin, Czech and German) in Litomyšl (1867–1869), in Rychnov nad Kněžnou (1869–1875) and in Tábor (1875–1899). In 1871 he was married with Ernestina (Arnoštka) Hlavata in Lično near Rychnov nad Kněžnou. When she died in 52 years in 1899, August Sedláček has retired and moved to Písek, there he has worked as a city archivist. On April 26, 1922 he was married with a teacher Tereza Barcal (1883–1972), who was almost 40 years younger. Since his youth, Sedláček has spent more than twenty years on historical topography and castelology and the preparation of the fifteen-part monumental castles, castles and fortresses of the Kingdom of Bohemia, but for publishing reasons it has been published for the rest of his life. While working in the archives he gathered an unimaginable amount of material (only a genealogical and topographic filing cabinet has over 400,000 tickets), and many books have only been sketched in manuscript torsos. Numerous contributions to the history of Czech cities were completed by the almost fifteen hundred-page monograph The History of the Royal Regional Town of Písek nad Otavou (1911–1913), which was published on the anniversary of the first decade of the Czechoslovak Republic in its second edition. Czech archeology has undergone great development since the 1950s. https://czech-archaeology-news.estranky.cz/articles/castellology-in-czech-republic/history-of-czech-castellology.html 2/5 20. 5. 2020 We are looking for new point of view... - Castellology in Czech Republic - History of Czech Castellology Dobroslava Menclová comes from a family of academic painters M. Vavroušek. She after graduating from secondary school in Bučovice Menclová has began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under prof. Josef Loukot. After a critical reassessment of her talent, she has eventually studied architecture at CTU. In 1930 she completed her studies and married Václav Mencl. She worked with him in Bratislava and in the chateau park in Pezinok. From 1933 to 1939 Dobroslava Menclová worked with his husband on archaeological research of Slovak monasteries and castles. During the war, Mencl returned to Prague and researched Czech castles. Since the early 1950s she cooperate with a arts historians, for example with J. Pesina, M. Matyasova-Lejskova. She was dealt in detail with architectural architecture and construction of castles and walls objects and next architectural monuments. She dealt in detail with a architecture of fortification and the construction of the castles and next a castles tipology. She prepared in the 1950s of the two-part collective work with title Czech Castles (České hrady), where be published in 1972 and in 1976 again. Extensive studies on constructional development of the castles of Moravia, which should result in the book Moravian Castles, remained unfinished. She died after a car accident. https://czech-archaeology-news.estranky.cz/articles/castellology-in-czech-republic/history-of-czech-castellology.html 3/5 20. 5. 2020 We are looking for new point of view... - Castellology in Czech Republic - History of Czech Castellology Dobroslav Líbal was born to the family of Dr. Karel Líbal and his wife Růžena Zátková. At the request of his parents, he has study at from the Faculty of Law of Charles University. He has be graduated in 1935. Also Líbal continuing the study of the history of art and classical archeology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He was graduated after War in 1945. He joined to R studio in newly established build company Stavoprojekt. This studio was in 1954 the basic institute for the reconstruction of historical towns and buildings (SÚRPMO). In 1965 he was a founding member of the International Council for Monuments and Settlements (ICOMOS). In 1990 he was elected president of the Czechoslovak and later Czech national ICOMOS Committee. He was a member of the Club for Old Prague for many years, and since 1999 he has been its vice-chairman. Despite his age, after 1989 Dobroslav Líbal can start lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ministry of Culture for the Evaluation of Cultural Monuments. Dobroslav Líbal died in 2002. https://czech-archaeology-news.estranky.cz/articles/castellology-in-czech-republic/history-of-czech-castellology.html 4/5 20. 5. 2020 We are looking for new point of view... - Castellology in Czech Republic - History of Czech Castellology Tomáš Durdík was graduate at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague in 1974. Throughout his active career at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, he lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech on the Technical University and the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, also at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where he headed the Department of Archeology since July 2012. He was became a member of the scientific councils of EUROPA NOSTRA, Deutsche Burgenvereinigung eV, ICOMOS / UNESCO expert, also member of the Comité permanent Castrum Bene and Comité Castella Maris, and a member of the jury for EU prizes for the protection of European cultural heritage, next a member of the scientific council Standing Commissions of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the Evaluation of Cultural Monuments, etc. In addition to professional books and articles, he was the author of screenplays for the television series Castles inhabited and conquer( Hrady obýváné a dobývané 1991) and the Shields of the Kingdom of Bohemia ( Štíty království českého 2007). In 2011, the European prestigious international prize Europa Nostra was him awarded. He died suddenly on September 20, 2012, the day after his return from Archaeologia historica archaeological conference in Český Těšín. A great period of development of Czech castelology occurred in the second half of the 1980s and in the 1990s. In 1984, the Club of Augsut Sedlacek (klub Augusta Sedláčka), society Czech castellologists, was founded in totalitarian Czechoslovakia and has existed until today. At the Turn of the 80s and 9O Years The castellological Journal Hláska was founded. Later in the 1990s, a number of Castellologica Bohemica anthologies were added to it, which is still published today. https://czech-archaeology-news.estranky.cz/articles/castellology-in-czech-republic/history-of-czech-castellology.html 5/5