Julius Leisching a jeho podíl na organizaci muzejnictví v Předlitavsku

Abstract

The presented article evaluates the importance of interest groups of museum workers concerned with museology development in Austro-Hungarian empire of the early 20th century. It analyses the decisive contribution of the director of the Museum of applied arts in Brno – Julius Leisching (1865–1933) to their formation and follow-up development.

Keywords

• Moravian and Austrian muzeology
• Julius Leisching
• museums associations
• cultural history of the Czech lands
• German population in Moravia