STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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On Monday, June 2, Dr. Hrozný St. introduced the so-called loan protocol as a new scientific force at Dr. Gambert. On this occasion, H. said that Dr. G. may perform the presentation of St. in the sub-divisions. Dr. Gambert is the type of a harmless scientist. Of course, it is not in the least doubted that he is an indo- cient.Excellent, but he is as little able as the other Germans of the university library to face S a p t paa d.e. The impression received by St. von Dr.G. was repeated by the rest of the Germans employed in the university biblio- T thek. Dr. H a u f r e n is already, in spite of his young years, a very special person. Dr. K r a l is a quiet and modest scientist, who is happy to leave him alone. Č e r n a i is a scientist with a bourgeois impact and gives the impression that he is the most satisfied when he sits with his beer in the evening and thinks about the past day. However, the most vivid impression is made by lecturer Dr.Jahn. Dr. Jahn speaks a little too much and does not make a sincere impression.Dr. C. The German officials of the University Library thus represent an ueU0 collection of specialists and dreamy scientists, while the Czech academics employed there have by no means left the ground of real reality. There are also isolated curiosities, which could be placed quite quietly with Madame Toussant as panoptical figures, but they are disappearingly small. An important moment comes to the Czechs. A large part of them have come from practical professions to the university library. One part came from the foreign ministry, another from the former association. Czechoslovak army. On closer examination of individual Czech. Personalities it is even easy to see that here from Czech.