Introduction
Periodicals
Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum
2012/57/1-2
Comenius and Gumppenberg's Atlas Marianus
Comenius and Gumppenberg's Atlas Marianus
Vojtěch Balík
Pages | 96-100 |
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Keywords | Wilhelm Gumppenberg (1609–1675) – Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670) – Comenius – alleged handwriting – Bohuslav Dušek (1886–1957) |
In the collection of Bohuslav Dušek is a copy of Atlas Marianus by the Jesuit Wilhelm Gumppenberg (1609–1675) with an alleged signature of Jan Amos Comenius on the front page. The author shows that the book could not possibly belong to Comenius. First, the book's spirit agrees with the baroque Marian cultus, diametrically opposed to the Brethern ́s religious spirit. Second, the exlibris proper: the name is Kamenský, not Komenský.
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