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Leopoldus Ioannes Scherschnik, De doctis Reginae-Hradecensibus commentarius ad Doctissimum Virum Stanislaum Wydra. Komentovaná edice

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Podavka O.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2016

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vol. 139

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issue 1-2

167-185

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De doctis Reginae-Hradecensibus commentarius (1775) is one of the early works by Leopold Jan Šeršník (1747–1814), a Teschen exjesuit and a future founder of the first museum within the Czech lands – in Teschen (in today Poland). It is also the first of his two published encyclopedias and it contains bio-bibliographical entries of 26 scholars from the region of Hradec Králové, most of whom lived in the period before the battle on the White Mountain (1620). The entries are quite brief, the most detailed one is that of Bohuslav Balbín, whose Bohemia docta was the main source of Šeršník.

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František Faustin Procházka’s Approach to the History of Learning

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Žůrek J.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2015

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vol. 138

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issue 3-4

325-339

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František Faustin Procházka (1749–1809) is usually remembered as a translator of the Bible in the history of Czech literature. However, in this contribution we aim to concentrate on the historia litteraria. We will attempt to find answers to the following issues: what style of historia litteraria was characteristic for Procházka and what he could have had exactly in mind when contemplating both education and scholarship. Going through Procházka’s Commentarius (first published in 1782) reveals the answers: the history of learning could be best comprehended, according to Procházka, as the history of the artistry of Latin writing. He studied Latin literary output throughout the centuries and marked the periods of excellence and also the ages of decline. He held firmly and he tried to prove that the advancement in the Latin literacy (literature) had always had the decisive impact on the whole progress in both scholarship and sciences, also because the precise and concise expressions in pure classical (Ciceronian) Latin were apt for clarity, and thus enabled to capture the order of the things faithfully, which created the rudiments for any true knowledge. Furthermore, the Latin education imbued the students with the ideal of Ciceronian humanity. Morals based on philanthropy were inherent to this type of schooling. Thus, the classical studies have direct impact on the well-being of the society and consequently, the welfare of the Czech nation depends on the prosperity of arts and scholarship, and ultimately, on the quality of Latin education.

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A Patriotic “Picture Gallery” or a Universal “Tree of Knowledge”? Metaphors of Knowledge in the Historia Litteraria Works

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Smyčka V.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2016

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vol. 139

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issue 1-2

25-49

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Discussing two important historia litteraria projects from the 1770s in Bohemian lands (Abbildungen böhmischer und mährischen Gelehrten und Künstler by Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt, Ignaz Born and Franz Martin Pelzel, and works on the history of learning by a Moravian scholar Ludwig Zehnmark), the study shows the opposing functioning of spatial and vegetative metaphors. Whereas the authors of the first work conceived their project from the beginning as a closed “hall”, a “portrait gallery”, Zehnmark in the opening of his work employed the allegory of a “tree of knowledge” or, better, a “graft of knowledge”, which was permanently migrating, growing and bearing fruit. In contrast to the closed “picture galleries” of the age-old national pride, employed by the authors of the Portraits, he emphasized the vital power of perpetually growing abilities of reason and perpetual cultural transfer of sciences. In contrast to the mnemonic motionlessness of a randomly cyclic and thus ultimately immovable time, he emphasized an organic time of accumulated and constantly qualitatively-changing knowledge. The imagery of these works thus conveyed to readers a particular notion both of the nature of the passed-on knowledge and of the overall passing of historical time.

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Leopoldus Ioannes Scherschnik, De doctis Reginae-Hradecensibus commentarius ad Doctissimum Virum Stanislaum Wydra. Komentovaná edice

František Faustin Procházka’s Approach to the History of Learning

A Patriotic “Picture Gallery” or a Universal “Tree of Knowledge”? Metaphors of Knowledge in the Historia Litteraria Works