Szymon Musaeus's speech on the occasion of the introduction of Matthias Breu to the position of the rector of the Toruń Gymnasium in 1568 from the collection of the Provincial Public Library – the Copernicus Library in Toruń

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https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2025.006

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Szymon Musaeus, Matthias Breu, Toruń Gymnasium, Provincial Public Library – the Copernicus Library in Toruń

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The study includes an introduction, explanations, transliteration of the Latin text and the first full translation of the speech delivered on 8 March 1568 by Pastor Szymon Musaeus, Doctor of Theology, Honorary Professor at the Toruń Gymnasium and then head of the local Protestant clergy, on the occasion of the induction of magister Matthias Breu, to the position of the rector. Musaeus's speech remains a valuable historical source that shows the backstage of the establishment of the Gymnasium in Toruń.

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Tomasz Dreikopel, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Institute of Philosophy, Poland

Tomasz Dreikopel, PhD, works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philos­ophy of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In 1999 he received his master’s degree at the Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in 2008 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Philology of the same university. His research interests concern, among others, ancient philosophy and its broadly understood reception, especially in academic gymnasiums in Gdańsk and Toruń at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. He is the author of several dozen publications, published, among oth­ers, in “Nowy Filomata”, “Rocznik Toruński”, “Szkice Humanistyczne”, “Folia Toruniensia”, “Humanities and Natural Sciences” and in several collective monographs. Recent publica­tions by this author include: (2021). The world’s first Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle Peri ton areton kai kakion by Szymon Grynaeus, a professor at the University of Basel, from the collection of the Copernican Library in Toruń. Folia Toruniensia, 21, 185–201. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2021.009; (2022). Characterization of anger as human passion in Aristotle of Stagira. In W. Ślusarczyk, G. Frischke (eds.), Bile – anger – fury. Medical and cultural aspects throughout history. Episteme Publishing House, 29–38; (2022). Remarks on Greed (aneleutheria, illiberalitas) as a moral defect in Francis Tidicaeus’s Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus. Folia Toruniensia, 22, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2022.006; (2024). Łukasz Schubbe’s Carmen de nova constitutione Gymnasii Thoruniensis from 1568 in the collection of the Voivodeship Public Library – Copernicus Library in Toruń. Folia Toruniensia, 24, 153–174. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2024.007.

References

Breu, M. (1568). Novae scholae T[h]orun[i]ensis ratio doctrinae et disciplinae. Excudebat Iacobus Rhodus.

Dreikopel, T. (2015). The acts of Toruń Gymnasium from 1568 (part I – education and curriculum). Translated from Latin. Folia Toruniensia ,15, 59–67.

Dreikopel, T. (2016). The legislation of the Toruń Gymnasium of 1568 (part II – internal regulations): the translation from Latin, Folia Toruniensia,16, 63–70.

Dreikopel, T. (2024). Łukasz Schubbe’s “Carmen de nova constitutione Gymnasii Thoruniensis” from 1568 in the collection of the Provincial Public Library – the Copernicus Library in Toruń, Folia Toruniensia, 24, 153–174.

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Tync, S. (1928). History of the Toruń Gymnasium (1568–1793). Vol. 1. Scientific Society in Toruń.

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2025-11-04

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Dreikopel, T. (2025). Szymon Musaeus’s speech on the occasion of the introduction of Matthias Breu to the position of the rector of the Toruń Gymnasium in 1568 from the collection of the Provincial Public Library – the Copernicus Library in Toruń. Folia Toruniensia, 25, 117–150. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2025.006

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