Bildungsmäzenatentum und lutherisches Schulwesen in den böhmischen Ländern des 16. und des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts
Educational patronage and Lutheran school system in the Bohemian Lands in 16th and early 17th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with various forms of educational patronage related to Lutheran schoolsystem in Bohemia and Moravia during the Pre-White-Mountain period on the basis ofanalyzing official and literary sources. It observes especially two most common forms ofthe mentioned patronage – namely foundations and further supports of the schools itselfand then also the subventions oriented to its students and possible graduates. In additionto defining the term of educational patronage in the introduction, the paper drafts a briefdevelopment of Lutheran municipal schools in Bohemian Lands (particularly in townswith majorities of German-speaking population). Then it focuses on several educationalinstitutions of a specific character which were founded thanks to financial support of privatesources such as among others Lutheran oriented grammar schools in Velké Meziříčíor at Saint Salvator in the Old Town of Prague. The study foundations are introducedmostly by the examples of towns Cheb and Jihlava. In the conclusion, the author summarizeshis most important results concerning moreover the functions of researched educationalpatronage and refers to its other forms (donations of books or complete libraries toschooling institutions, etc.).

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