STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1672, sig. 109-4/1427

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The two institutes have so different directions of interest that substantial overlaps are not to be feared. The demarcation will be all the easier because the Vienna and Prague Institutes have the same structure: as branch offices of the High School, both institutes are subordinated to me. Of course, the establishment of such institutions does not deprive other universities of the opportunity or restrict them to work on these questions. However, due to its past as well as its future tasks, xx is to become the scientific and organizational center of this area of research. The special responsibility of the Krakow Institute for Polish questions is given to the 20213 nature of things. The general theme of the Prague Institute kxxx can be described as the study and presentation of the basics and structure of the living conditions of the peoples in their rooms. It would therefore be the following main areas: Racially biological composition and structure of the peoples there - relations between people and spaces - prehistory and settlement-classes - structure, kinship and dependencies of languages, relationship of people and language, language groups history and problems of state formations (share of German forces) - legal development (constitution history, private law history) - economic development, problems of economic constitution - church history with special consideration of the Byzantine problem - poetry and fine arts - history of ideas, especially pan-Slavism.