Abstract
This article examines the question of the participation of professors from Poland in the academic life in Prague from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Because the article is a prosopographic study, the group of surveyed professors is presented in the context of their academic careers, territorial and social origins, motivation to take up an academic career in Prague, and life after their academic endeavours in Prague had come to an end.
Highlights
This article examines the question of the participation of professors from Poland in the academic life in Prague from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries
It can be said that throughout the entire period of the operation of Prague’s universities in the Middle Ages and early modern period, not many Polish professors worked in Prague
Despite the geographical proximity of Bohemia to Poland, they preferred to work and teach in their home country, and only in cases when their origin was from the lower social strata did they choose permanent work at the universities in Prague, which can be seen in the statistics of their social origin: 59% townspeople, 35% nobles, and 6% peasants
Summary
Jan of Warka Ścibor of Bielsk Stanisław of Żarnowiec Krzysztof of Lithuania Albert of Znojmo. The remaining Jesuit, Grzegorz Kamiński, came to Prague to teach as a typical Jesuit educator.[27] Of this group, the majority (six professors) taught in the lower (gymnasium) classes, with only three teaching in the higher classes (academic) They did, leave Prague quite quickly after working for the college and the academy to pursue careers (Jesuit cursus honorum) in other parts of the Austrian province (until 1623), or they returned to their homeland.
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