Domestic project

Born from the Enlightenment Reforms. Integration of Hungarian Tolerance Preachers into Shaping of Modern Czech Society (1781–1870)

Provider: The Czech Science Foundation
| Project duration: 2018–2020
| Project ID: GA18-00885S

The project is focused on analysing the socio-professional group of Hungarian Protestant preachers who were implanted into Czech environment as a result of Joseph II’s reforms. The work puts emphasis on comprehensive evaluation of the group’s social and economic status. This project achieves it via comparison of three generational layers with help of wide range of sources to capture peculiarities of the target group as well as its interaction with society, including process of cultural transfer. Research tasks lie in evaluation if, and to which extent, were general secularization schemes of the “long” 19th century reflected in relationships of individual components of Czech society towards religiously defined minority group. The topics include specifically attempts to put the concept of “Hussite nation” forward. The project culminates with a collective monograph enriched by edition of sources that will benefit not only mapping socio-professional groups of Czech society on the turn of modern times, but also the research in relationships between religion and nationalism.

Investigator

Sixtus Bolom-Kotari
PhDr., Ph.D.

Beneficiary

Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences