This bachelor’s thesis deals with the status of aristocracy
after the year 1848 in connection to the social and economic
sphere on the example of the Podstatzky-Lichtenstein family in
the second half of the 19th century in Telč. The thesis
observes the head of the family, count Leopold III.
Podstatzky-Lichtenstein, and his approach towards the process
of modernization in the management of the Telč estate. Other
aspects that the work is concerned with are the impact of the
family on the development of the region and whether there
occurred any changes in the life style of the aristocratic
family on the brink of new civil society.