"A New City, a New Generation, Hope for Society"

Or the Efforts of Founding the Růžičkov Colony in Prague‑Troja (1925-1930)

Abstract

This article concerns the Růžičkov eubiotics colony in Praque (1925-1930). The article centres on the recapitulation of the history of eugenics, social medicine, eubiotics, alternative education and the efforts to construct the Růžičkov eubiotics colony in Czechoslovakia before World War II. The central figures of the efforts were prof. Stanislav Růžička (1872-1946, author of the eubiotic theory) and Eduard Štorch (1878-1956, reform teacher).