Milada Pulová – první česká profesorka
Mezi soudobými dějinami a byzantologií
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The book is devoted to the life and career of the important Czech historian Milada Paulova (1891-1970), who was the first woman in Czechoslovakia to achieve the highest university degrees and who introduced the controversial question of whether it is possible to apply the methods of historical work to a topic in modern history and at the same time to evaluate it objectively. Paulova was the favoured pupil of the historian and Slavist Jaroslav Bidlo, a professor of general history with a focus on the history of Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, who decided to make her his successor at the head of the department of general history of Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. Milada Paulova was thus to continue the work he had begun, which consisted of scientific research into the history of the Eastern Slavs and the Byzantine Empire, but eventually turned to the subject of mapping the Czech and South Slavic anti-Habsburg resistance during the First World War. Jaroslav Bidlo, a proponent of so-called pure science, was confronted with his pupil's strong political and lobbying involvement and the fact that she preferred a modern topic and a narrow specialization. Their dispute ended with M. Paul's reluctant return to Byzantine studies, in which she eventually became a respected figure who managed to gain international recognition for the field. However, M. Paulova has become widely known as an elite historian of the Czech and Yugoslav anti-Habsburg resistance, and her Jugoslavenski odbor remains to this day a fundamental work depicting the birth of Yugoslavia. M. Paulova's life reflects the changes in political and social conditions as well as the changes in historical science (especially Slavic studies and Byzantine studies) and Czech or Czechoslovak university life.
