Jiří Gabriel, vedoucí mé diplomové práce

When professor Jaromír Bartoš suddenly died in 1972 the author of this essay lost the supervisor of his diploma thesis on Condorcet. With a new theme for his thesis focusing on the beginnings of Czech philosophical thinking in the early phase of national revival he approached Jiří Gabriel, who agreed to take charge. The thesis focused on an interesting figure of Czech Josephianism, the enlightened clergyman Václav Stach and his educative Handbook of a Folk Teacher, which reflected contemporary European philosophical ideas. The thesis was successfully defended and thanks to Jiří Gabriel partly published in the Proceedings of the university. This work is an expression of gratitude for the salvation and for the possibility to publish by a 1973 graduate and a committed teacher of philosophy and social sciences at Brno grammar schools.