Život evangeličky v Čechách na konci 18. století: obraz ženy v korespondenci tolerančních luterských kazatelů ze Slovenska
The life of an Evangelical Woman at the end of the 18th Century: An Image of Women Cast by the Correspondence of Toleration Preachers from Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the status of women in an evangelical community in Bohemia at the end of the 18th century. A letter correspondence between preachers and the Superintendent of the Lutheran Congregation in Prešpurk, Michael Institoris Mošovský, is used as the primary source for the research of this issue. The correspondence is archived in the Library of Evangelic Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava. After the Patent of Toleration was issued (in 1781) – which made it possible to establish Lutheran and Helvetic Confession congregations in Bohemia and Moravia – M. I. Mošovský assisted with the mediation of the arrival of preachers to newly-founded communities and maintained written contact with the preachers afterwards. He helped the new preachers, who were mainly from the area of present-day Slovakia (Upper Hungary), to solve numerous problems occurring during the process of founding Lutheran congregations in the Czech lands. The correspondence thus contains a number of interesting pieces of information about the day-to-day running of these communities and, last but not least, there are many references to women. Correspondence of preachers from the Czech congregations in Prague, Habřina, Kovánec, Křižlice, Horní Dubenky, and Krucemburk from the period of 1782–1803 was used.

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