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Die Bibliothek des ADALBERT STIFTER VEREINs
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| The library of the Adalbert
Stifter Association boasts some 10,000 volumes: fiction and poetry
of Czech and German-Bohemian authors, secondary literature on literary
studies, exhibition catalogues and art volumes as well as literature
on the Arts and History of the Arts in the Bohemian Regions. These
are integrated into the Scientific Library of the Sudetendeutsche
Haus (Sudeten German House) that is administered by the Collegium
Carolinum, the research centre for the Bohemian Regions, and is located
in the basement of the Sudetendeutsche Haus. |
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A small
number of them, however, are located in the reference library of
the Adalbert Stifter Associations on the third floor of the Sudetendeutsche
Haus and where access is available on request.
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The volumes reflect the
unique purchasing and collecting activity of the 1950s. Thus,
we find large collections that came into being at the end of the
19 th century: scientific explanations of art and cultural monuments,
arranged by political districts (each in Czech or German), which
at the same time complement the volumes „Die Österreichisch-Ungarische
Monarchie in Wort und Bild” (the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy in
Word and Picture).
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Moreover there are equally complex arrangements
of the volumes „Czechs“, containing illustrations of Karel Liebscher
(arranged by the old-circle method), the early topographic works
of Jaroslav Schaller (Bohemia) and Gregor Wolny (Moravia), early
descriptions of Prague etc. Finally, in the reference library we
also find the 1896 work of Czech lexicography „Ottův slovník naučný“
(Otto’s encyclopaedia) with its supplementary volumes from 1930,
the German edition of the „History of Bohemia“ by Franz (František)
Palacký, the Prague Stifter-edition in reproduction, dictionaries
and numerous own publications: Annuals, catalogues, the Prestel
series of art books etc. |
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