Josef Kalousek

Josef Kalousek
Birthday	Monday, April 02, 1838
Birthplace	Vamberk, Austrian Empire
Died	Monday, November 22, 1915
Occupation	Historian
Education	University of Vienna

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Kalousek, Josef

 

Born Apr. 2, 1838, in Vamberk; died Nov. 22, 1915, in Prague. Czech positivist historian. Member of the Czech Academy of Sciences (1890).

From 1882 to 1908, Kalousek was a professor at Charles University. He wrote a number of monographs on Czech history (primarily medieval) and state law. From 1887 to 1913 he was editor of the Czech Archives, a collection of documents in which he published extremely rich factual material on the history of the Czech peasantry from the 14th through the 19th century.

WORKS

Čseké státní pravo, 2nd ed. Prague, 1892.
Obrana kníŽete Václava Svátého, 2nd ed. Prague, 1901.
Vyklad k historické mapé Čech, 2nd ed. Prague, 1894.
Listiny a zapisy bēlské o vēcech mēstských a sedlskych 1345–1708.. Prague, 1889.

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