Úvod do života a vedeckého pôsobenia Dr. Jána Tibenského
(Introduction to the Life and Scientific Work of Dr. Ján Tibenský)
Dominik Blanár
Download PDFBLANÁR, Dominik. Introduction to the Life and Scientific Work of Dr. Ján Tibenský. In Historický zborník, Vol. 35, 2025, No. 1, pp. 13 – 38.
Abstract: As a leading historian, Ján Tibenský left behind not only an impressive body of work, but also an extensive written estate deposited in the Archives of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As a student of the most prominent historians and literary scholars of his time, he began his career at the oldest Slovak national cultural and scientific institution – Matica slovenská. He was instrumental in the development of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAVU) and was also involved in its transformation into the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), which was established in 1953. He was an employee at the Historical Institute until his retirement in 1986. However, he remained fully involved in Slovak historical science in the period that followed, provided fundamental methodological and factual foundations for some areas, in which he was and remains an authority to this day. In his numerous monographs and scientific syntheses of Slovak history, he contributed his invaluable lifelong knowledge and often original theses to the field of historiography.
Keywords: Ján Tibenský; National Revival; History of Slovakia; History of Science and Technology in Slovakia; History of Everyday Life; Budmerice