Ing. Mgr. Michal Vokurka, Ph.D.

Research areas

nobility in the 17th and 18th centuries, historical landscape and landscape design, historical geography, gardens

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2012–2015: Bachelor in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Julius Jindřich Sasko-Lauenburský (1586–1665). Budovatel vojenské kariéry, pozemkového dominia a osmého divu světa / Julius Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (1586–1665). Builder of a Military career, of a Landed dominion and of the Eighth Wonder of the World

2014–2017: Bachelor in Landscape Planning, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, thesis title: Identifikace reliktů krajinotvorby sasko-lauenburkého rodu na bývalém panství Zákupy / Identifying Landscape Relicts Left by Saxony-Lauenburg House on the Former Domain of Zákupy

2015–2018: Master in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Barokní krajinotvorba. Srovnání přístupu Šliků a Sasko-Lauenburských / Baroque Landscaping. Comparing the Schlicksʼ and Saxe-Lauenburgsʼ Attitude

2018–2020: Master in Nature Conservation, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, thesis title: Historický vývoj meliorací a hrazení bystřin na vybraných levostranných přítocích Ohře – od vydání zákona 117/1884 ř. z. po současnost / Historical development and building of check dams on example of left-bank tributaries of Ohře – since publication of code 117/1884

2018–2023: Ph.D. in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Panství. Vztah aristokrata k pozemkové držbě. Sasko-lauenburští vévodové 1600–1750 / The manor. Aristocrat's relationship to the land ownership. Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg 1600–1750

Foreign internships and scholarships

6–7/2021: Eszterházy Károly Catholic University in Eger, CEEPUS
11–12/2021: University of Hamburg, DAAD-Ost
5/2022: University of Vienna, Visiting PhD student
3/2023: University of Innsbruck, Aktion Czechia - Austria

Domestic grants and major projects

2017: Rezidence sasko-lauenburských vévodů a jejich dědiček v druhé polovině 17. Století / Residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg and their Heiresses in the Second Half of the 17th century, Internal Grant of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, n. FF/VG/2017/74, Principal Investigator 

2023–2027: Hranice jako kulturněhistorický fenomén. Specifikace, analýza, komparace a interpretace / Borders as a Cultural-historical Phenomenon. Specification, Analysis, Comparison, and Interpretation, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DH23P03OVV030, beneficiary: Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, cobeneficiary: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, team member

Significant awards

2019: 3rd place in the competition Science for the Earth 2019 in the category Master's Thesis for the thesis Baroque Landscaping. Comparing the Schlicksʼ and Saxe-Lauenburgsʼ Attitude [Barokní krajinotvorba. Srovnání přístupu Šliků a Sasko-Lauenburských]

2022: Congress Committee Prize at the 12th Congress of Czech Historians for the poster Historic Ponds between Cultural and Natural Heritage [Historické rybníky mezi kulturním a přírodním dědictvím: zdroj nebezpečí i poučení]