Professor

Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová
Born3 June 1900
Opatovice nad Labem
Died19 November 1995
Pardubice
Resting placePardubice Cemetery
NationalityCzech
Alma materCharles University, Prague
OccupationNumismatist

Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová (1900-1995) was a Czechoslovak numismatist, archaeologist and historian. She is considered to be a founder of modern Czech numismatics.

Early life

Nohejlová-Prátová was born on 3 June 1900 in Opatovice nad Labem, east Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary.[1] Her father, Emanuel Nohejl, was the doctor and mayor for the village.[1] Her mother was Berta Schmidt and the couple had three daughters, of which Nohejlová-Prátová was the youngest.[2]

In 1918 Nohejlová-Prátová caught influenza as a result of the pandemic of Spanish flu that swept Europe, and this illness delayed her graduation.[2] Nevertheless, she graduated from high school and went on the study History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; one of her tutors was the Czech historian, Professor J V Šimák.[1] Initially, her father encouraged to Medicine like him, but she preferred History - as soon as her eldest sister settled on Medicine, it meant that Nohejlová-Prátová could pursue her historical studies.[2] During her time at University, she became engaged, however in 1923 her fiancee died as a result of injuries received during the World War I.[2]

Career

Nohejlová-Prátová's signature

By the end of her university studies, Nohejlová-Prátová had already begun to make a name for herself as an excellent historian.[2] Her final dissertation on the history of the Opatovice monastery was published soon after she graduated.[2]

From 1923 to 1926 she worked as a scientific officer at the National Museum in Prague.[2] In 1926 she returned briefly to teaching in schools in Chrudim, Ivančice and Dvůr Králové, but in 1927 she returned to Prague.[2]

In 1930 Nohejlová-Prátová was appointed as a curator in the Numismatic Department at the National Museum in Prague, where she worked until her retirement in 1959.

World War II

Nohejlová-Prátová was arrested by the Gestapo on 4 February 1942, she was interrogated at Petschek Palace and imprisoned because she had used crystals from the mineralogy department to build radios, which supplied news at odds with Nazi propaganda.[2] She was released from prison in May 1943.[2] At that time she was forbidden from working in Prague, but was allowed to find work elsewhere and through a connection to Professor Fritz Dworschak, director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, found work there for two years.[2]

After the end of the war, her colleagues in Vienna were keen for her to remain, however Nohejlová-Prátová was keen to return to her work in Prague.[2]

Research

Nohejlová-Prátová had been a pioneer of the use of photographic enlargement in her research prior to the World War II.[1] Post-war, she returned to her job in the Department of Numismatics and began to research and catalogue the collections extensively.[1]

In 1949 she was appointed as a lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno, alongside her museum work.[1] She worked extensively on hoarding practices in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, examining deposits from the ancient period up to the nineteenth century,[3] In her research she worked across many periods, with her specialisms lying particularly in Czech coinage, especially of Bohemia,[4] and metrology.[5] She was also considered an expert on medieval counterfeits.[6] In Nohejlová-Prátová's work on Czech coinage in the tenth and eleventh century, she believed that numismatics tended to over-estimate the link between iconography and contemporary politics.[7] In 1958 she was awarded a doctorate.[1] In 1964 was appointed Professor at the Charles University.[1] By 1960, she was Keeper of Numismatics and President of the Czech Numismatic Commission.[8]

She died on 19 November 1995, aged 95, in Pardubice, Czech Republic and is buried in the cemetery there.[1]

Bibliography

A full bibliography for Nohejlová-Prátová can be found at Databáze Národní knihovny ČR.[9] She wrote several books, including:

  • Opatovického Monastery Ruins, surveyed by Nohejlová-Prátová
    Příběhy kláštera Opatovického [Stories of the Opatovický Monastery], 1925[10]
  • Z příběhů pražské mincovny [Stories of the Prague Mint], 1929[11]
  • Moravská mincovna markraběte Jošta [Moravian Mint of Margrave Jošt], 1933
  • Košický poklad [Košice Treasure], 1948
  • Coins Finds in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia [12]
    Coins from Hungary in the Golden treasure of Kosice, researched by Nohejlová-Prátová
  • Das Münzwesen Albrechts von Wallenstein, 1969
  • Základy numismatiky [Fundamentals of Numismatics], 1975 (2. vyd. 1986)
  • Katalog výstavní sbírky medailí
  • Dvě století vědecké numismatiky v českých zemích:(1771-1971)
  • "Kralovna Emma." Královny, kněžny a velké ženy české
  • České medaile Severina Brachmanna

As well as many articles, such as:

  • Denar of Princess Euphemia
  • Poznámky o ražbách pražské mincovny [Notes on the minting of the Prague Mint], 1930
  • Krátký přehled českého mincovnictví a tabulky cen a mezd
  • "Rožmberské tolary." Numismatické listy
  • "Kilka uwag na temat najstarszych znalezisk denarów czeskich i współczesnych znalezisk polskich[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová (1900-1995)". detektorweb.cz. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Univ. prof. PhDr. Emanuela Nohejlová - Prátová, DrSc. (1900 - 1995) | Klub přátel Pardubicka". kppardubicka.cz. Archived from the original on December 27, 2018. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. ↑ Museum, United States National (1970). Bulletin. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  4. ↑ Ryant, Jiří (2017-12-01). "Bohemian coins of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries found in Budislavice". Numismatické Listy (in Czech). 72 (3–4): 147–154. doi:10.1515/nl-2017-0013.
  5. ↑ Polanský, Luboš; Krákorová, Jaroslava (2016-06-01). "Important anniversary of the leading Czech numismatist, historian and museum person – Eduard Šimek (*1936)". Numismatické Listy (in Czech). 71 (1–2): 69–96. doi:10.1515/nl-2016-0004.
  6. ↑ Oslanský, František (2009). "European Written Sources on the Counterfeiting of Coins in the Middle Ages". Historický časopis (Supplement): 3–14. ISSN 0018-2575.
  7. ↑ Pauk, Marcin Rafał (2014-01-01). "The Coin in the Political Culture of the Middle Ages. On the Iconography of the Bohemian Deniers in the First Half of the Twelfth Century". Kwartalnik Historyczny (in Polish). 121: 8. doi:10.12775/KH.2014.121.SI.1.01. ISSN 0023-5903.
  8. ↑ Metcalf, D. M. (1960). "Review of Numismatický Sborník (Historical Institute of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic Commission)". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 20: 297–298. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42662745.
  9. ↑ "SKC - Výsledky vyhledávání". aleph.nkp.cz. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  10. ↑ "Příběhy kláštera Opatovického". digi.law.muni.cz. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  11. ↑ Nohejlová-Prátová, Emanuela (1929). Z příběhu pražské mincovny; nástin jejích osudu v letech 1537-1618 (in Czech). V. Praze: Nákl. České akademie věd a umění. OCLC 12604398.
  12. ↑ Nohejlová-Pratová, Emanuela (2009-04-24). "Collections numismatiques". Museum International (Édition Française). 11 (2): 107–109. doi:10.1111/j.1755-5825.1958.tb00012.x. ISSN 1020-2226.
  13. ↑ Chrzanowska-Foltzer, Marta (2012-12-01). "Czy tylko Paryż? Kilka uwag na temat polskich artystek na południu Francji". Archiwum Emigracji: 127. doi:10.12775/ae.2012.011. ISSN 2084-3550.
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