Milada Paulova 120th anniversary of her birth, has works published, Professor

Historian and Byzantologist Milada Paulova (1891-1970) devoted her professional career and scientific work to the history of Southeast Europe, particularly the South Slavic world. She mainly dealt with the modern period (World War I and Czech-South Slavic relations) and the Middle Ages (the history of Byzantine Empire). Of great importance in Paulova's life was her meeting J. Bidlo, professor of the medieval history at Charles University in Prague. Milada Paulova defended her habilitation thesis on general history of Eastern Europe and the Balkans at Prague Philosophical Faculty in 1925 and became the first female Docent in Czechoslovakia. Ten years later, in 1935 she became the first extraordinary female Professor and was granted full professorship in 1945 ex post from 1939. As a Professor of Byzantology at Charles University in Prague, she wrote many world-renowned studies. As the editor of the journal Byzantinoslavica, she deserved credit for its post-war revival and its reputation as an international journal, and also for the Byzantological bibliography that it included.