Gelasius Dobner

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Gelasius Dobner

Gelasius Dobner , (baptismal name Job Felix ), SP, (born May 30, 1719 in Prague ; † May 24, 1790 ibid) was a Bohemian Piarist with the religious name Gelasius a Santa Catharina, historian and historian .

origin

Job Felix Dobner was a son of Joseph Dobner, a citizen and carpenter on the Lesser Town of Prague and his wife Marianne Schäffler, a wealthy bourgeois daughter from Prague and the grandson of Michael Dobner from Bor in the Upper Palatinate Forest . Dobner's mother tongue was German. He learned Latin and the Czech language as a high school graduate .

Life

At the age of 17 Dobner entered the Piarist order, received the religious name Gelasius a Santa Catharina , studied philosophy and theology, law in Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1741. Then he was a teacher at the religious colleges in Horn in Lower Austria, in Vienna , Kremsier and Nikolsburg in Moravia , and from 1752 in Prague at the Old Town High School for Humaniora .

From 1757 to 1762 he worked as an educator in the household of Count Hieronymus Ferdinand Rudolf von Mannsfeld, who later became the Imperial and Royal Minister of Agriculture. In 1762 he became rector of the new religious college, which was set up on his initiative in Prague. He held the office until 1778. Dobner was a representative of the Catholic scholarly Enlightenment and one of the founders of critical historiography in Bohemia. As a patriot, he was extremely interested in objective science . He strove to separate true lore from fiction , a difficult undertaking that often brought him into opposition to traditionalists and aristocrats.

Gelasius Dobner publicly exercised this criticism in well-known publications. He caused his greatest sensation with the correction of the Bohemian Chronicle of Václav Hájek z Libočan , up to then a standard work of Bohemian history. He published 1761–1782 under the title Wenceslai Hagek a Liboczan Annales Bohemorum 6 volumes, 1761–1781, a new edition with commentary. After this criticism, the Hájekchronik lost its importance, but around 1820 it was still a reading on the history of Bohemia that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe paid attention to, and more recent research has considered it from an expanded perspective.

Father Dobner rediscovered the historically significant writings of the Asian missionary and imperial chancellor Giovanni de Marignollis and published them for the first time after 400 years in 1768 in his Monumenta historica Bohemiae nusquam antehac edita , which appeared in 6 volumes from 1764 to 1786.

In addition, Dobner founded a scientific association in 1769, from which the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences was formed in 1784 .

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SURNAME Dobner, Gelasius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobner, Felix Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian piarist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1790
Place of death Prague