A tudományos élet és magyarországi kapcsolatai Cseh-Morvaországban a felvilágosodás korában
Scientific life in Bohemia and Moravia, and its connections with Hungary during the Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: One of the most significant of the scholarly societies established at the end of the eighteenth century was the Learned Society of Prague (Königliche Böhmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften), which can be regarded as the predecessor of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The Learned Society of Prague played a decisive role in the enlightened scientific life of Bohemia, especially in the field of modern historical scholarship. The Society, which included among its members Ignác Born, Gelasius Dobner, Karel Rafael Ungar, Mikuláš Adaukt Voigt, and Frantíšek Pelcl, was a modern workshop organizationally as well as in terms of its idealism, which produced the first analytical and comprehensive works of Czech scholarship. The Bohemian scholars mentioned above carried on an intensive cooperation with historians in Hungary, corresponding with György Pray, Károly Koppi, Joh. Chr. Engel, György K. Rumy, and György Ribay. The other centre of Czech scientific life was Brno, which, on account of special economic and cultural development, had an intensive social life in the last third of the eighteenth century. The capital of Moravia had mostly economic, patriotic-nonprofit, and philanthropichumanitarian societies, the latter in connection with freemasonry, the initiative held by local, wealthy aristocratic families. The best-known society was the Ackerbaugesellschaft, which played a leading role in the modernization of the economy and agriculture of Moravia. Moravian societies published a number of important periodicals, such as Vaterländische Blätter, Oekonomische Neuigkeiten, Mährisches Magazin, which contributed to the modernization of economic and scientific life, and, at the same time, served as organs of cultural and local patriotic aspirations. The outstanding representatives of Moravian scientific and cultural life, such as the aristocrat Joh. Nepomuk Mittrovský, Hugo Franz Salm, Leopold Berchtold, and the economist and research organizer Karl Christian André, as well as the reorganizer of Protestant education affairs and church, Heinrich Riecke, all had significant connections with people in Hungary.

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