RECEPCE ŠPANĚLSKÉ LITERATURY, KULTURY A JAZYKA NA MORAVĚ
RECEPTION OF THE SPANISH LITERATURE, CULTURE AND LANGUAGE IN MORAVIA

Summary/Abstract: This paper is concentrated on three themes which demonstrate the penetration of the Spanish culture, literature and language in the Moravian backround. As introduction is treated the historical context, the situation in the XVIth century which serves as the point of departure, when, thanks to the expansion of the Spanish power and the religious effort of the Catholic Reformation (Contrerreform), specially of the Spanish jesuits who were the authentic founders of the actual University of Olomouc, the Spanish element was consolidated for a time in Moravia. After, may be mentionated the Cardenal Francis of Dietrichstein (Ditristan), half Spanish (his mother was Spanish), who, in almost the same time, but slightly posterior mantained as secretary the Spanish poet Alonso de Salinas; the Cardenal was the first documented reader of Don Quijote, yet in 1605 (the Valencian edition). Till today, there are some Spanish authors and titles in the Scientific Library of the State in Olomouc: Amadís de Gaula, Cervantes, Mateo Alemán, Quevedo, between the most importants. At the same time is recorded the use of Spanish technical terms in Olomouc, in a book in which is explained what medical plants should be used against the pestilence, published in Czech in Olomouc the year 1680, when the Spanish influence upon the Czech countries weakened. Amd before finish is supplied a view from the Iberian Peninsula to demonstrate that the war occurences around Olomouc in the XVIII. century was very closely observed here, and is documented what was the Spanish and Portuguese name for the ancient Moravian capital – Olmutz, Olmuz, Olmizo.

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