| Summary: | The thesis deals with the life and and career of a neglected scientist of the age Enlightement, Mikuláš Adaukt Voigt (1733 -1787). He was a historian of literature, a lingvist and mainly the founder of the Czech modern numismatology. Based on the archival sources, the bibliography and his own published works are described his activities in the Czech historical science, his contacts and the influence of his friends and patrons, who were important personalities of their epoch. The thesis focuses chronologically on the period from the 70s to the 90s of the 18th century. Voigt's work is researched in the context of the cultural progress in the Czech Lands in the period of the late Enlightement and in the context of the development of the Czech historical science at the end of the 18th century. In the thesis also the so called "learned salon" is mentioned as the basic factor which formed Voigt's and his friends' careers and which was organized by Count František Antonín Nostic. In his house a fellowship of scholars, intellectuals and sponsors met and later they established the future Czech Society of Science. The thesis is focused on one specific phenomenon, too, which had a big impact on the cultural and political life of all the Czech society at the turn of the centuries - on patriotism. Voigt's patriotism was...
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