Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis
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Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis (English: The Society of Anonymous Scholars in the Austrian Lands) was the first
Background
When the Habsburgs took over the
It was the strong Jesuit reaction
Objectives
The society set itself the goals of advancing the sciences, in particular the natural sciences, mathematics, numismatics, and the history of scientific research, along with philology and literature. In the religious conflicts of the time between Protestants and Catholics, the Societas eruditorum took an objective and pragmatic approach, and it had members in both camps.
Members
Petrasch was able to recruit many members from across
The members were designated as "anonymous" in order to avoid repressions from the state censors.[3]
Journal
The society published the first scientific journal in the Habsburg monarchy, the Olmützer Monathlichen Auszüge Alt- und neuer Gelehrter Sachen (Olomouc's Monthly Excerpts from Old and New Erudition), with each issue having some 80 pages. The journal was on sale in Olomouc, Brno, Prague, Vienna, as well as by book sellers in Nuremberg, Wrocław, Leipzig or Bautzen.[10]
Focus
It was especially concerned with the reform and promotion of the German language as well as with spreading the Enlightenment ideas.[3] The society was propagating various streams of contemporary thought. Two of them were of particular importance: the philosophical rationalism of Christian Wolff, a practical approach to philosophy which in Moravia was combined with the Catholic reformism of Ludovico Antonio Muratori; and the school of critical historiography stemming from Jean Mabillon.[1]
The German focus of the Society was not so much aimed against Czech language, rather against the prevailing use of Latin as lingua franca as well as against the gallomania of the high German society.[3]
The Society received state protection, but opposition from within the Jesuit-dominated town, ongoing problems with Vienna-based censors,[3] as well as disagreements from within the Society itself, led to its premature demise. Nevertheless, its periodical represented a landmark: the first attempt within the Habsburg monarchy to unite the learned, the dilettanti and the curieux and to bring them into contact with the pan-European Respublica literaria.[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9780521431552
- ^ ISBN 9780521528566
- ^ ISBN 9783406459542
- ^ Náboženství a moderní česká společnost, David Václavík, Grada Publishing a.s., 2010, page 53
- History of University of Olomouc
- ^ Geryk, Josef (2009), Osvícenské právnictví - základ novodobého práva (in Czech), Brno: Masarykova Univerzita
- ^ Slavik, František Augustin (1899), Vlastivěda moravská: Země a lid, Díl 1 (in Czech), Brno: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně, p. 827
- ^ Becker-Cantarino, Barbara (2005), German literature of the eighteenth century: the enlightenment and sensibility, Boydell & Brewer, p. 284
- ^ Zimprich, Richard (1974). Olmütz als deutsche Hochschulstadt in Mähren. Esslinger am Neckar: Bruno Langer Verlag.
- ISBN 9783447045070
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