Amico veteri suo Argentorati. Letters Relating to Bohemian Scholars Held in the Archive of the Chapter of Saint Thomas in Strasbourg

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Amico veteri suo Argentorati. Letters Relating to Bohemian Scholars Held in the Archive of the Chapter of Saint Thomas in Strasbourg

Original language description

The Strasbourg City Archives (Les Archives de la Ville et de l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg) house the archive of the chapter of St Thomas, which among other materials includes letters related to the Bohemian lands that have remained for the most part unknown, and thus unpublished. These letters are an important source of information on the intellectual interactions of the Strasbourg and Bohemian Humanist scholars in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when numerous Bohemian nobles and intellectuals came to study at the Strasbourg gymnasium and used the Strasbourg printing houses to publish their works. The first group of letters presented in this paper concerns the Strasbourg canon Konrad Hubert (1507–1577), who maintained epistolary contact with eminent Bohemian Humanist scholars such as Matthaeus Collinus, Jan Banno, and Thomas Mitis, whose poems he either helped publish in Strasbourg or was planning to include in the anthology of religious poetry he was preparing. The second part of this paper only includes one letter which, however, is no less remarkable than the rest of the letters edited herein. Written by Strasbourg Professor of Theology Jean Marbach (1521–1581) and addressed to the distinguished Bohemian physician and astronomer Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek (ca. 1525–1600), the letter provides, among other things, information that the prominent Bohemian Humanist scholar Jan Kocín of Kocinét served as tutor to one of Hájek’s sons during his Strasbourg studies in 1571. The third and final part of this paper presents two letters by Jan Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice (1598–1650), who, having left the Bohemian lands after the Battle of White Mountain, studied at Basel University and worked as a physician in Basel and Schaffhausen. The letters are addressed to the Strasbourg poet Samuel Gloner and give intriguing information about the sender’s younger brother Karel Škréta, who was 18 years old by then and still studying the art of painting. The second letter to Gloner discusses the earliest known engraving of young Karel Škréta’s painting. All letters included in this paper have been provided with a critical, annotated edition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-03419S" target="_blank" >GA22-03419S: Forms of humanism in the literature of the Czech lands II (Companion to Central and Eastern European Humanism: The Czech Lands, Part II)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Listy filologické

ISSN

0024-4457

e-ISSN

2570-9410

Volume of the periodical

147

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1/2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

113-140

UT code for WoS article

001368612400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208575794