Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc.

Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. 

Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. / NAD 1967 

Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. 

Prof. PhDr. Koloman Gajan, DrSc. / NAD 1967 

Textual material 9,19 linear meters 

The fonds of Prof. Koloman Gajan, PhD, DrSc., a leading Czechoslovak historian, contains mainly documents related to his scientific work: manuscripts of scientific papers, auxiliary study material, studies and articles, lectures, correspondence, and documentation of the author's public activities. The fonds also contains personal documents and biographical material. Among the Judaica in the fonds there is the author's own biography, which contributes to the knowledge of life in the Jewish community in the small village of Hamborek (now Brezovička) in eastern Slovakia, where Koloman Gajan spent his childhood and youth in an Orthodox Jewish family. The fonds also contains family photographs from 1924-1939, which mainly show the siblings of the originator. The fonds also contains school photographs from the time when Koloman Gajan studied at a Jewish high school in Brno from which he graduated in the 1939/1940 school year. The group school photographs also show the then headmaster of the high school, the prominent Jewish intellectual, writer and teacher, PhDr. Oskar Epstein (1888 Český Krumlov - 1941 Brno). On the reverse of the photographs there are the signatures of Koloman Gajan and Professor Oskar Epstein. The fonds also contains documents showing the cooperation of the originator with the Society of Jewish Academics, the Jewish Community in Prague, and the Jewish Museum. 

The roughly arranged files are: personal documents; biographical material; manuscripts of scientific works; correspondence; lectures and speeches; preparatory study material; documentation from the public activities of the originator; dissertation and habilitation reviews; scientific works of PhDr. Alena Gajanová; resumes; photo albums; photographs; commemorative medals.