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GALICIA IN THE PRESS PUBLICATIONS OF JOSEF KALOUSEK

The historian Josef Kalousek (1838–1915) belonged to the most compelling personalities of Czech science in the second half of the 19th century (he was the first professor of Czech history at Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague; this post was established as some response to similar post of Polish history professors at uni-versities in Galicia). Kalousek belonged also to elites of the National (Old-Czech) Party and was very close to František Palacký and František Ladislav Rieger. However, he began his career as a journalist, writing at first for a government newspaper issued in Czech. Furthermore, after the end of the Bachian-Kempenian absolutism (neoabsolutism) and the growth of issued periodicals after 1863 (the new act of press), Kalousek worked for Czech magazines supporting the Old-Czech political current, especially for „Národ” („The Nation”) and „Pokrok” („The Progress”).  

In 1863 Kalousek took a journey to Chernivtsi – through Krakow and Lviv – to pay a long visit to his brother. In this way he could get to know Galicia and Bukovina. He wrote a travel diary and used the knowledge gained during this time as a journalist. The submitted article presents many of Kalousek’s observations concerning the journey events (for example the fading revolt of Janu-ary 1863). However, the article concentrates on Kalousek’s press publications, including travel story texts for „Národ” from 1864 and 1865 (From Prague to Chernivtsi, From Chernivtsi to Lviv, In Lviv, etc.). These texts show his views about the national problems of Galicia (for example his interpretation of the position of Ruthenians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians) or about the cultural life of Galicia of that time.