Exiles from Bohemian Lands in Estonia after 1620 and Their Publishing Activities

• Authors: Marta Vaculínová , Kristi Viiding
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Contacts between the inhabitants of the Bohemian lands and present-day Estonia in the early modern period have been relatively unexplored. In the 16th century, these were mainly individuals, such as Thomas Horner from Cheb, who lived and wrote in several places in present-day Estonia. However, the influx of exiles during the Thirty Years’ War marked a change. Most of them arrived in Estonia in the 1640s, leaving their mark in the local Estonian occasional print. Thomas Procopius is one example, as he published ribbing poetic broadsheets in Tallinn. Immigrants continued to arrive long after the end of the Thirty Years’ War; for example, Jiří Holík visited Tallinn several times and donated his printed horticultural works to the city council. Michael Sigismundi from Frýdlant, the author of a tribute to the Greek language and many occasional prints, was a professor and later rector of the Tallinn Gymnasium from 1677 to 1709. This article also provides information about Bohemical prints in Estonian libraries, including the first edition of a 1623 report by Friedrich Seidel, a member of Friedrich of Krekwitz’s envoy to the High Porte, and a unique print of one of the last theses of the Prague Utraquist University by Andreas Aquinas.

Keywords

EN

Thirty Years’ War; Bohemica; Estonia; Exiles from Bohemia; Thomas Horner; Thomas Procopius; Michael Sigismundi; Matthias of Thurn; Occasional poetry; Friedrich Seidel

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Journal: Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 8-23
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Marta Vaculínová

• Knihovna AV ČR, v.v.i., Národní 1009/3, 115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Kristi Viiding

• Knihovna AV ČR, v.v.i., Národní 1009/3, 115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic