local governments, social history

Prezentace výsledků výzkumů inteligence a lokalních samospráv uskutečněných na pracovišti SZM v Opavě.

At first, it informs the readers on the research of brain power, or, more particularly, on the process of the forming of the brain power in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century in selected Moravian and Silesian cities. Using the method of collective biogram, conclusions were expressed on the social and professional structure of the brain power in the researched cities and on the development tendencies, basing on approximately 7,000 biographic entries obtained from the population censuses in years 1857 to 1910. The research project titled ?The Moravian and Silesian Cities in the Era of Municipal Self-Administration in Years 1850-1914, Municipal Elite, Local Economy, Modern Infrastructure Building? was financed from the grant financial means of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in years 2006 to 2008.