K počátkům novinářské, publicistické a pedagogické činnosti Františka Šelepy (1904–1908)

František Šelepa (1887–1945) counts among unappreciated figures of Czech journalism and pedagogy. During his secondary school years in Kroměříž, he contributed to the Moravské rozhledy (Moravian Horizon) weekly (1903–1905). Since autumn 1905, he studied philosophy, philology and pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts (philosophy) of the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague of that time. He edited Almanach Slavie, an anthology of the chief Czech students’ association, and magazines called Studentská revue (Students’ Revue) and Přehled (Review). Despite his youth, he ranked among those few figures of Czech public life (professors Vincenc Strouhal, František Drtina and T. G. Masaryk) who got more involved in the secondary school reform matter. This fact is enhanced by his monograph Základní otázky reformy středoškolské (The Underlying Issues of the Secondary School Reform, 1908) of which the second edition already took place in the new political and social background of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1926.