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Collection title: Korespondence Milady Blekastad-Topičové (1917–2003) | Correspondence of Milada Blekastad-Topičová (Europe: 1930–2003)
Description: Milada Blekastad was the granddaughter of prominent publisher František Topič. She travelled as a fifteen-year-old to Norway and settled there. She became an exceptional scholar, translator between Czech and Norwegian and renowned expert on Johannes Amos Comenius’ life and work. The Milada Blekastad Papers include 31 large files of two-way correspondence, 30 files of additional documents by Blekastad and others (academic studies, administrative and personal documents) and 10 files of printed articles and research. The Milada Blekastad Papers include sent and received correspondence with approximately 250 partners. Milada Blekastad corresponded with Roman Jakobson, Dmytro Čyževskyj, Jaroslav Seifert, Alfréd Radok, Alois Hába, Josef Škvorecký, Ivan Sviták, Karel Kryl and many other notable figures. The Milada Blekastad Papers include sent and received correspondence with approximately 250 partners. Blekastad corresponded with Roman Jakobson, Dmytro Čyževskyj, Jaroslav Seifert, Julie Nováková, Vlasta Miškovská – Kozáková and many other notable figures.
Archive address: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic
Reference number: Files 1-71
Links: The catalogue is available from the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Publications: Kateřina Šolcová, Comenius im Blick: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Milada Blekastad und Dmitrij Tschižewskij (Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2014); Věra Schifferová, Ivan Chvatík a Tomáš Havelka (ed.). Jan Patočka, Korespondence s komeniology I. – III. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2011.
Contributor: Iva Lelková
