Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012
Abstract
The study deals at first with the personnality and work of Caspar Peucer (1525-1602), an Upper-Lusatian Humanist of universal interests (medicine, mathemathics, theology, history), who cultivated also the rich contacts to the Bohemian intellectual milieu of the time (Jan Blahoslav, Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku). The author analyses also the great latin poem Idyllium Patria.
It is the first work, which was dedicated to the region of Upper Lusatia and to its history, which was edited by print and amply used in later time. The study thinks about the sources of this work and follows, how Peucer - classical educated humanist of Lutheran Confession with very strong patriotic feelings - constructs the image of its country and of its capital Bautzen.