Natalie Huyn (1853–1940). Portrait of an unmarried aristocrat in the early 20th century The subject of this paper is the life story of Natalie Countess Huyn (1853–1940), on the example of which the diverse opportunities for the social participation of an unmarried member of the aristocracy at the…

Revision and new discoveries in the genealogy of selected members of the Swéerts-Sporck family buried at Kuks (19th–20th century) The family of the Counts Sporck, or later Swéerts-Sporck, is one of the most interesting noble lines in Bohemia, especially in connection with the persons of general…

Portrait silhouettes from the collections of the National Museum The historical collection of the Department of Old Czech History of the National Museum contains a collection of more than seventy portrait silhouettes. Because of the diversity of techniques, topics and styles in this collection,…

The Unknown Manuscript of the Všehrds’s On the Laws of the Czech Land Nine Books? The treatise On the Laws of the Czech Land Nine Books (O právích země české knihy devatery) by Viktorin of Všehrdy has a special position among the Bohemian land lawbooks. It was completed almost simultaneously with…

Echoes of so-called re-ennoblement trials in the resources of the Archives of the National Museum Researchers have the personal resources of two key genealogists and heraldists of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Antonín Šlechta and Čeněk Pinsker, available in the Archives of the National…

“He was born a century later…” Náprstek Museum of Jiří Muller and Bohumír Lifka The long-standing professional and personality clashes and differences in opinion between these two well-known museum managers, Jiří Müller and Bohumír Lifka, had a major impact on the environment in which…