KROMERIZ LECTURES - PROBLEM OF A SMALL NATION
Subtitle: PROBLEM MALEHO NARODA -TRANSLATED FROM THE CZECH with NOTES AND COMMENTARY by STACEY B. DAY
By: TRIGON
Contributors: Cover Design by Karel Horak . Printed in the Czech Republic by Siluris.
Edition: Hard Bound
Publisher: Nakladatelstvi TRIGON
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Umelecka 2, PRAHA 7, Czech Republic
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9788086159997
Subjects: Czech Republic; Tomas Garrigue Masaryk; Establishment of Czech Republic; Austro-Hungarian Empire
Genres: Political History; Czech History; European Post World War II Nations
Work titles: Translation from the Czech language, with Notes and Commentary, of two lectures given in Moravia, in Czech, in 1905
First sentence: Foreword. I came across Thomas Masaryk's PROBLEM MALEHO NARODA in 1972. I had traveled to Prague to participate in an International Conference on Burns, and was staying in Hradcany, in the home of Frantisek Podval, who later was to become my father-in-law. The sad, tired, almost inert atmosphere of Prague, coupled with an extraordinary caution virtually bespeaking fear, pervaded the whole city, as far as I could tell, and was an experience that I had never encountered before.
Description: A group of bibliophiles found two lectures of T.G. Maseryk, ( Founder of the Czech Republic), in 1905, in TYRS,a monthly publication in Kromeriz. These lectures were delivered on April 15th and 16th of that year, in Kromeriz, as part of a University Extension Course on the PROBLEM OF A SMALL NATION. The Kromeriz bibliophiles and their friends published this significant find in a Not-For-Sale-Edition on the occasion of IX Congress of Moravian Bibliophiles and Exlibrists in Valasske Mezirici, on May 16th, 1937. This revered print on the same occasion celebrated the 87th birthday of President the Liberator, Masaryk. (Vasil K. Skrach. In Prague, June 1st, 1937). These two lectures are here translated into the English language with NOTES AND COMMENTARY by Professor Stacey B. Day, and published by Nakladatelstvi TRIGON in Prague, January 2010.
Notes: Published in a limited edition. In Memory of Frantisek Podval. The author (Translator and author of Commentary) was born in London, England, in 1927. A medical doctor trained in surgery in the Department of Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota, he went on to become Professor, Member, and Head of Communications and Education at the Sloan Kettering Institute of Cancer Research in New York. He later became a W.H.O. Professor of International Health. His writings include works in biology and medicine as well as in literature and social-cultural academic research.