Maximilianus Wietrowsky: „Překlad“ jako forma historiografické práce

• Authors: Alena Bočková

Title variants

EN

Maximilianus Wietrowsky: „Translation“ as a form of historiographic work

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the historiographic production of Maximilian Wietrowsky SJ (1660–1737), especially the method of his work with sources. Although the author admits his nonauthenticity, referring to his sources in numerous marginals, he fails to mention his main source – the French historian Louis Maimbourg (1610–1686). This was perhaps caused by Maimbourg’s conflict with Rome, his expulsion from the Jesuit order and putting some of his works on a list of banned books. The paper compares Wietrowsky’s Latin translations with the French originals and shows to what extent it is a literal translation or a revision, which more or less draws from the original source. The essay concentrates in detail on Historia S. Joannis Nepomuceni, the process of its emergence, the compilation of several sources and the further textual tradition in the form of translations into vernacular languages.

Keywords

EN

Maximilianus Wietrowsky; Baroque historiography; early modern translations; Louis Maimbourg; ecclesiastical history; Historia S. Joannis Nepomuceni

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY
• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53–65

Contributors

author

Alena Bočková

• Jazykové centrum FF UK, nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic