Marta Vaculinova, Kristi Viiding „Exiles from Bohemian Lands in Estonia after 1620 and Their Publishing Activities”

Marta Vaculinova, Kristi Viiding. Exiles from Bohemian Lands in Estonia after 1620 and Their Publishing Activities. – Knihy a dějiny /Books and History 31 (2024), issue 1/2, 8-23.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.23852/KAD.2024.31.01

Kontakte varauusaegse Böömimaa ja Eesti ala literaatide vahel on seni vähe uuritud. 16. sajandil olid need peamiselt üksikisikud, kes sattusid Eesti- ja Liivimaale elama (näiteks Thomas Horner Chebist). Kolmekümneaastase sõja ajal toimunud pagulaste sissevool tähistas aga muutust. Enamus neist saabus Eestisse 1640. aastatel, jättes oma jälje kohalikesse juhuluule ja akadeemilistesse trükistesse. Heaks näiteks on Thomas Procopius, kes avaldas Tallinnas juhuluuletrükiseid. Böömi sisserändajaid jätkus veel terveks 17. Sajandiks: näiteks külastas Tallinnat mitu korda Jiří Holík ja annetas oma trükitud aiandusalaseid töid raele. 1677-1709 oli Tallinna gümnaasiumi professoriks ja hiljem rektoriks Frýdlantist pärit Michael Sigismundi, kreeka keele ülistuskõne ja paljude juhutrükiste autor. Artikli lõpus antakse ülevaade Eesti raamatukogudes leiduvate böömi päritolu trükiste kohta, mille hulgas on Friedrich Krekwitzi saadiku Friedrich Seideli 1623. aasta aruande esmatrükk ning ainutrükk Andreas Akviniuse ühest viimasest disputatsioonist Praha Ülikooli utrakistlikust perioodist.

Contacts between the literati 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.