Abstrakt:
Authors of the text have been engaged in the study of inventive figures from mentioned
historical period for a long time already. The essay is anchored in their rich experience
with different kinds of ego-documents from that time, especially correspondence,
daybooks, memoirs, small glosses and imaginative literature. The model of a student as
a socially unanchored and financially dependent person, which can be found in the history
from medieval times, these authors confront with the new situation of so-called modern
times. Using concrete examples, the authors illustrate the fact, that from the 19th century
students' financiall indemnity started to increase and gradually shaped some kind of system.
The basic methods of acquiring money for school were still conditions. In connection with
emergence of new newspapers and publishers the possibilities of external work for money
broadened. Fundations were also very important; some of them had a character of assemblage.
Universities started to provide a pension system as well (school reference and social
pension). After the creation of independent state possibilities of travelling pension also
broadened. Authors of this study deal with subjective factors related to institutional pension
system, phenomenon of favouritism and its ambivalent reflection as well.
