František Foit – Czech scholar and African explorer

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

František Foit – Czech scholar and African explorer

Original language description

František Vladimír Foit was a Czech sculptor and explorer who set off to explore Africa twice – before World War II and once again in the 1940s. Through many coincidences his second journey led through Africa to Slovenia. After moving from Kenya, he settled in Velenje and donated part of his extensive collection to the Velenje Museum. In this article we would like to introduce Foit not only as a sculptor but above all as a teacher at Kenyatta College, where he influenced one generation of native African students, and as a collector who saved precious items of African art. The importance of Foit’s collection of African art is documented in the second part of this study.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Práce z dějin Akademie věd

ISSN

1803-9448

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

23-48

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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