The thesis ``The development of research on Spanish cultural issues in Czech countries`` is concerned with the development of hispanism in the Czech countries. The first chapter is dedicated to Czech-Spanish relations from their beginning which incorporate s the origins of Czech hispanism at the turn of 19th and 20th century and describes its periods to present time. It compares the level of Czech Hispanism with other hispanistics sciences in Europe. The second chapter chronologically represents the increase of works by Spanish authors translated into Czech. The third chapter brings the list of the most significant historiographers and events from the Spanish history which drew their interests. The fourth chapter is dedicated to Czech linguists examining the Spanish grammar. The final chapter is focused on Czech literary scientists.

This thesis is focused on the Czech prestigious hispanist Josef Dubský and his linguistic labour. It is divided into five chapters. The first chapter outlines the history of Spanish studies in the Czech Republic. The second chapter speaks about life of Josef Dubský. Next three chapters are dedicated to Dubský´s labour in the field of grammar, lexicology and semantics and stylistics. There are presented studies and articles published by Dubský in different Czech and international periodicals and also his Spanish textbooks and Czech-Spanish (Spanish-Czech) dictionaries. In the annex there is enclosed the summery of Dubsky´s publications including the front pages of the textbooks and dictionaries we used in this work.

The present diploma thesis gives an overview of hispanistic topics in the Journal for Modern Philology with emphasis on the period after 1953. The work is divided into three parts. The first and largest part is devoted to the chronological overview of the above-mentioned topics. The second part examines the thematic lines appearing in the journal and the third part provides brief profiles of contributors who published articles with hispanistic topics. The appendix to this work contains a list of all hispanistic contributions in the Journal for Modern Philology from 1911 to 2014 with some additional information.