prof. PhDr. Martin Holý, Ph.D.

Research areas

history of the Bohemian Lands in the 16th to 18th centuries in the Central European context; mainly cultural history, history of education (in general, incl. history of universities), social history

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1997–2003: Master in History – Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Dětství a mládí šlechty v českých zemích v době předbělohorské / The Childhood of the Nobility in the Bohemian Lands in Pre-White Moutain Period

2003: Rigorosum proceedings (PhDr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2003–2008: Ph.D. in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Výchova a vzdělávání české a moravské šlechty (1500–1620) / The Upbringing and Education of Bohemian and Moravian Nobility (1500–1620)

2013: Habilitation Procedure (doc.) in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Vychovatelé nobility z českých zemí (1500–1620) / In the Service of Nobility. Czech Noblemen’s Tutors (1500–1620)

2019: Professor Appointment Procedure (prof.) in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem

Foreign internships and scholarships

4/2000–3/2001: University of Konstanz

International grants and projects

2006–: research on selected aspects of Czech-British relations in the 16th and 17th centuries within the British-Czech-Slovak Historians' Forum

2008–2011: Cultures of Knowledge. An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters, guarantor: Prof. Howard Hotson, University of Oxford, team member

2008–: research on selected aspects of the educational history of early modern society within the Historical Commission, the Division for Historical Educational Research and its preferred topics

2014–: participation in the international editional project Acta Unitatis Fratrum published by the Czech-German Commission

2024–2028: Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800 (PCPSce), COST Action, č. CA23137, coproposer and the leader of the working group 5 Texts-Ideas

Domestic grants and major projects

2008–2010: Private tutors of Czech and Moravian Nobility at the Threshold of the Modern Age (1526–1620). A Prosopographical Analysis, Czech Science Foundation, Junior Research Grant Projects, reg. n. B800150801, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2012–2014: Educational Patronage in the Czech Crown lands in Early Modern Age, Czech Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Grants, reg. n. P405/12/P422, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2012–2016: History in an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Charles University, PRVOUK-P12, module Society, Culture and Communication in Czech History, team member

2015–2017: Child in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. GA15-02196S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2016–2018: Bohemian Brethren Nobility in Bohemia and Moravia. Formation of Noblemenʼs Confessional Identity and its Changes in the 1st half of the 17th Century, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. GA16-11332S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2018–2020: Universitas magistrorum. Professors of Prague Utraquist University (1458–1622), Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. GA18-00408S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2021–2023: University of Basel and the Czech Lands (1460–1630), Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. GA21-00227S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2024–2026: Construction of Noble Identity in the Works of Bohuslaus Balbinus Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 24-10417S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

Teaching activities

Faculty of Arts, Charles Univerzity (since 2009)
Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (since 2010)

Membership of editorial boards

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Czech Historical Review
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Slavonic Review
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Folia Historica Bohemica
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Bohemiae Occidentalis Historica
Member of the Editorial Board of the Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historia scholastic
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal East Bohemian Historical Periodical [Východočeské listy historické]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historica. History and Related Sciences Review
Member of the Editorial Board of the Institute of History of the CAS
Member of the Editorial Board of the publishing house Academia

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic (since 1999)
Member-senior of the Czech Steering Committee of the British-Czech-Slovak Historians’ Forum (od 2006)
Member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Research on Courts and Residences (since 2013)
Member of the Czech-German Commission for the Publication of the Acta Unitatis Fratrum [Tschechisch-deutsche Kommission für die Herausgabe der Acta Unitatis Fratrum] (since 2014)
Member of the Committee of the Czech Historical Institute in Rome (since 2017)
Member of Comenius Academic Club New York (since 2017)
Member of the Scientific Board of the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius (2018–2024)
Vice-chairman of the Wissenschaftliches Wallenstein-Kuratorium (od 2018)
Member of the Presidium of Arbeitskreis Vormoderne Erziehungsgeschichte, Sektion Historische Bildungsforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (since 2019)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Arts of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (since 2019)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Arts of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (since 2019)
Member of the Subject-Area Board of the Doctoral Programme History/General History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2019)
Member of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Programme Czech History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (since 2019)
Member of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Programme Czech History of the Faculty of Arts of the of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (since 2020)
Member of the Scientific Board of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (since 2020)
Member of the Czech National Committee of Historians (since 2022)
Member of the International Review Panel Estonian Research Council (since 2024)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Collegium Carolinum (since 2024)
Chairman of the Scientific Board of the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius (since 2024)
Commission for Science Support Programmes at Charles University (since 2024)

Significant awards

2009: The Otto Wichterle Award to promising young scientists of the Czech Academy of Sciences

2012: Awards of the CAS for young scientists for outstanding scientific achievements

2022: Academia Publishing House Award for 2022 in the category of Dictionary or Encyclopaedic Publication for the book Mlada Holá - Martin Holý et al., Professors of Prague Utraquist University in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (1457/1458–1622), Prague 2022