The study focuses on the development of topographic works in Bohemia and Moravia in the period after the publication of Schaller's topography. Based on these works, the study reconstructs the types of outputs and forms of presentation of topographic data. It identifies various inventory topographies, statistical lexicons, homeland studies presentations, thematic lexicons, specialized topographic studies, cartographic representations, the publishing of vedutas and old photographs, and the preparation of dictionaries of local names.
The study deals in detail with the youth of Jaroslav Schaller and his years of study, especially at the novitiate in Lipník nad Bečvou and his private studies in the Piarist order. The author follows Schaller's work, particularly his sixteen-part Topographie des Königreiches Böhmen and the description of the capital city of Prague Beschreibung der königlichen Haupt- und Residenzstadt Prag. He also focuses on his further life and work, a significant encyclopedia on the history of pedagogy of the Piarist order, the original findings of which were already to be found in Schaller's topographic writings, and another book on pedagogy and the educational efforts of the Piarist order.
In historical sources, the perception of landscapes reflects a struggle for existence, power and control of the space, man's creative activity, his thinking, and his ideas. The projection of a picture of the landscape into a wide range of sources documents the changing image of the landscapes with the goal of passing it on to future generations. At the same time, the descriptions of individual lands and regions expanded the contemporary geographical horizon. The presented text concentrates on selected written narrative materials from the European late Middle Ages and early modern period that can be characterized as topographical and historical geographic sources.
The authors use the example of the personality of Tomáš Řehoř Wolny (1793–1871) to describe the development of historical topography in Moravia in the 19th century, following the founding work of František Josef Schwoy (1742–1806). Wolny, who upon his entrance to the Benedictine monastery in Rajhrad near Brno in 1817 adopted the order name Gregor, was also an avid researcher-historian. Although his life and professional destiny has already been examined in earlier Czech and Austrian historiography, his work has unfortunately not yet been comprehensively evaluated, not only in terms of the methodological procedures Wolny used, but also in reflecting on his monumental works dealing with general and ecclesiastical topography in contemporary research. The aim of the presented paper is to at least partially fill in this gap in current knowledge.