Abstract
The author considers as predecessors of the Czech school of social thought:
1. František Ladislav Rieger, who visited England in early 50s of the 19th century to study the industrial cities and their social situation,
2. Jakub Malý, who informed the Czech society about the social question in a series of newspaper articles a decade later,
3. Josef Kaizl, who studied the social question by Gustav Schmoller in Strasbourg and
4. Karel Adámek, who linked the social question in the 80s of the 19th century with the poltical activities in the Bohemian diet.