Abstract
Based on the documentary evidence of the Prague Linguistic Circle Collection in the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as other sources, partially unknown up to now, the paper pays attention to some aspects of the history of this outstanding world centre of linguistics and philology between 1926 and the World War II. The article analyses various topics of the history of the Circle: circumstances of its forced termination after the onset of the Communist regime in the 1950s; the problem of membership (helping to ascertain e.g. who of the leading linguists of the day were among the Circle's members or close collaborators); the Circle's correspondence.
Moreover, the paper presents a complete list of lectures given in the Circle (providing information about 16 papers from 1948-1950, unknown up to now).