The Library of František Vetešník in Sobotka, Part I Cover Image

Sobotecká knihovna Františka Vetešníka, část I.
The Library of František Vetešník in Sobotka, Part I

The Story and the Fate of the Dean’s Library from Eastern Bohemia

Author(s): Kryštof Kouřil
Subject(s): History
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: František Matějovič Vetešník; Antonín Marek; Josef Jungmann; Markvartice;Sobotka; diocese in Litoměřice; dean library in Sobotka; rectory libraries; Czech national Revival; Czech revivalists;

Summary/Abstract: Parish and dean libraries and their development during the 19th century are very specific and it is closely related to the involvement of priests into the process of national revival. The clergy is the representant of the country intelligence and it is given a new role of national revisionists and they are made to find their own position between their devotion to the church and the devotion to their nation. With the rise in quantity and quality of books, changes were undergoing in the libraries, which are traceable in clerical libraries as well. For that matter, many of those are coming into existence during the 19th century. The dean library of František Matějovič Vetešník (1784–1850) in Sobotka in the Northeast Bohemia is among others unique in the matter of its extent, genre and language diversity and by its ability of survival almost in its whole until nowadays, even though there was an imminent extinction. The first of the two studies tries to follow the story of its owner, reconstruct its appearance in the half of the 19th century and map the history of its placement from the 1840s until the year 1936 when the chapter library in Litoměřice assumed part of the fund.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2019
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 59-86
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Czech