Abstract
The article presents Dr Bedřich Jenšovský's activities in the State School for Archivists, a specialised educational institute that was founded in 1919, after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. An archivist with the Czech Lands Archives, Bedřich Jenšovský was not present at the start of the school, but he taught there from nearly the very beginning; first the history of administration and archival science from 1926 forward.
He basically taught these two subjects till the end of his engagement at the school. In the early 1930's, as a member of the Czechoslovak Archives Association, he co-designed the school's curriculum reform that became effective from 1934.
In addition to his educational role, Bedřich Jenšovský was also the school's secretary. In the second half of the 1930s, he fully represented headmaster, Professor Gustav Friedrich, and he was appointed director in 1940, despite the difficult situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
For many years, Bedřich Jenšovský was also editor and contributor of the School for Archivists' Periodical, strongly influencing its form and development, and he is also credited for the school's development and operation in propitious and unpropitious times.