Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the historiography of the 19th century Habsburg monarchy based on the example of two prominent historians - Mihály Horváth and František Palacký. The first part is concerned with the fundamental processes, which influenced the historiography of the 19th century, the second part provides a small comparison of the two historians.
This study shows how historians partially lost the enlightened call for the "universal" and how they gradually entered the national frame of thinking.