Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis
Olomouc palace of Joseph von Petrasch
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| Founded | 1746 |
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| Founder |
Joseph von Petrasch Franz G. Giannini |
| Dissolved | 1751 |
| Type | learned society |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 49°35′24″N 17°15′43″E / 49.58999°N 17.26190°ECoordinates: 49°35′24″N 17°15′43″E / 49.58999°N 17.26190°E |
| Product | Monatliche Auszüge |
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Key people
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Johann Christoph Gottsched Matthias Bel Ludovico Antonio Muratori Angelo Maria Quirini Theodor Anton Taulow von Rosenthal Johann Chr. von Jordan Oliver Legipont Magnoald Ziegelbauer Hieronymus Pez |
| Location of Olomouc in The Czech Republic |
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 Location of Olomouc in
The Czech Republic |
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| Coordinates: 49°35′42″N 17°15′32″E / 49.59500°N 17.25889°E |
Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis (English: The Society of Anonymous Scholars in the Austrian Lands) was the first learned society in the lands under control of Austrian Habsburgs. It was established, formally, in 1746 at the university and episcopal town of Olomouc in order to spread Enlightenment ideas. Its monthly journal, "Monatliche Auszüge" was the first scientific journal in the Habsburg Monarchy.
When the Habsburgs took over the Czech throne in 1526, as many as nine out of ten inhabitants of the crown lands were Protestants. Olomouc, as the episcopal seat became a centre for the counter-reformation, with the Jesuits taking over the local college in 1566. In 1573 the college was promoted to University status, and the special papal seminary, the Collegium Nordicum was established in 1578. Initially competing with the schools run by the Hussite "Bohemian Brethren", the Jesuits obtained an effective monopoly after the Thirty year's war: this brought savage re-Catholicization and Germanization to the Czech population. The Jesuit monopoly was however challenged because the Moravian nobility wanted to expand the range of areas taught beyond just theology and philosophy. In 1679 secular legal studies were introduced at the University, and in 1725 the Academy of Nobility was established in Olomouc. Both these developments met with fierce opposition from the Jesuits.
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