Laurentius Boierus: A Swedish Teacher in Polish Schools during the Counter-Reformation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12775/SPI.2018.2.001Keywords
Counter-Reformation, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, history of Jesuit schools in Poland, Scandinavian Jesuits in Poland, Pontifical Seminary, Translators’ Seminary in DorpatAbstract
Many historians believe that the educational work of the Jesuits was one of the essential factors behind the failure of the Reformation movement in 16th century Poland. The article aims to depict and discuss Laurentius Bojer, a Swede who taught in Polish Jesuit schools and also garnered a considerable reputation as a Latin poet. Bojer graduated from and subsequently taught at Pontifical Seminaries which trained young people to engage in counter-reformatory work. He was also a professor at the Translators’ Seminary (Seminarium Interpretum) in Dorpat, a unique school that educated interpreters and translators who assisted Catholic missionaries and translated religious literature into Baltic languages. The portrayal of Bojer will include facts as yet unexamined in the Polish literature which the author has gleaned from archives and international studies (chiefly by the Norwegian historian Oskar Garstein). Bojer, a humanist and a writer relevant to Polish culture, will be addressed against the backdrop of the educational work of the schools he was involved with.
References
Bieńkowski T., „Bibliotheca selecta de ratione studiorum” Possevina jako teoretyczny fundament kontrreformacji, w: Wiek XVII – Kontrreformacja – Barok. Prace z historii kultury, red. J. Pelc, Zakład Narodowy im Ossolińskich, Wrocław 1970, s. 291–307.
Bieś A.P., Grzebień L., Inglot M., Polonica w Archiwum Rzymskim Towarzystwa Jezusowego, t. 1: Polonia, Wyższa Szkoła Filozoficzno-Pedagogiczna „Ignatianum”, Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 2002.
Biezais H., Saareste A., Tuntematon vironkielinen 1500-luvun teksti, Virittäjä 1954, t. 58, nr 1, s. 47–61.
Eire C.M., Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 2016.
Epistolae et acta Patris Jacobi Lainii, t. 5: 1560–1561, Typis Gabrielis Lopez del Horno, Matriti 1915.
Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy 1564–1995, red. L. Grzebień, Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 1996.
Garstein O., Boierus (Boienus, Boy) Laurentius, w: Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús, t. 1, red. Ch.E. O’Neill, J.M. Domínguez, Universidad Pontifica Comillas, Madrid 2001, s. 470–471.
Garstein O., Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia, t. 1–4, Universitetsforlaget, Oxford University Press, Oslo – New York 1963–1992.
Garstein O., Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia, t. 3: Jesuit Educational Strategy 1553–1622, E.J. Brill, Leiden – New York 1992.
Grendler P., The Culture of the Jesuit Teacher 1548–1773, „Journal of Jesuit Studies” 2016, t. 3, nr 1, s. 17–41.
Giacziauskas E., Prepodawanie matematiki w Wilnjusskom uniwersitete do 1650 goda, „Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys” 1972, nr 2, s. 194–195.
Jensen A., Suecica in der polnischen Literatur, w: Le Monde Oriental, Akademiska Boktryckcriet Edv. Berling, Uppsala 1906–1907, s. 134–148.
Koch L., Jesuiten-Lexikon, Verlag der Bibliothek SJ, Paderborn 1934.
Królikowski P., Norvegus, w: Encyklopedia katolicka, t. 13, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2009, kol. 1409.
Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus, w: Norsk biografisk leksikon, https://nbl.snl.no/Laurentius_Nicolai_Norvegus [dostęp: 13.12.2017].
Nordisk Familjebok, t. 5, Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag, Stockholm 1906.
O’Malley J., The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present, A Sheed
& Ward Book, Lanham (MD) 2014.
Obirek S., Antonio Possevino SJ i jego misja do Szwecji, „Nasza Przeszłość” 1997, nr 88, s. 91–108.
Pettegree A., Europe in the Sixteenth Century, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2007.
Piechnik L., Dzieje Akademii Wileńskiej: Rozkwit Akademii Wileńskiej w latach 1600-1655, Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rzym 1983.
Ratio studiorum, czyli Ustawa szkolna Towarzystwa Jezusowego, oprac. K. Bartnicka, T. Bieńkowski, Ateneum, Warszawa 2001.
Sinko T., Boierus, w: Polski słownik biograficzny, t. 2, PAU, Kraków 1936, s. 234–235.
Tarvel E., Gymnasium Dorpatense 1583–1625, „Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty” 1990, t. 33, s. 17–26.
Westerlund H., Laurentius Norvegus, w: Kardynał Stanisław Hozjusz (1504–1579). Osoba, myśl, dzieło, znaczenie, red. S. Archemczyk, J. Gusowski, J. Jezierski, Hosianum, Olsztyn 2005, s. 371–378.
Zielonka R., Rola alumnatu papieskiego w Braniewie w próbach rekatolicyzacji Skandynawii w XVI i XVII wieku, „Rocznik Elbląski” 2016, t. 27, s. 87–124.
Żak A., Bojer, w: Encyklopedia katolicka, t. 2, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 1985, kol. 742.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
By submitting an article, the author declares that:
they are the author of the article (hereinafter referred to as the Work) and:
- is entitled to exclusive and unlimited copyright to the Work,
- is entitled to dispose of the copyrights to the Work.
The Author grants the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow a free, non-exclusive, territorially unlimited license to use the Work in the following fields of exploitation:
- publishing the Work in paper, digital or magnetic form;
- multiplying the work by any method, without limiting the number of editions or copies;
- distribution of the work and its copies in any form, including marketing, sales, lending, and lease;
- placing the work in a computer memory;
- distribution of the work in information networks, including the Internet;
- public performance, exhibition, display, reproduction, broadcasting and re-broadcasting, as well as making the Work available to the public in such a manner that everyone could have access to it at a time and place chosen by themselves;
- within the scope of dependent rights to the Work, covering, in particular, the right to make necessary changes to the Work, resulting from editorial and methodical preparation, as well as to make translations of the Work into other languages.
The license right shall be transferred the moment of transfer of the Work to the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow. The Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow is entitled to grant sub-licenses to the Work in terms of the right granted. The license shall be limited in time for a period of 15 years from the date it is granted.
Stats
Number of views and downloads: 454
Number of citations: 0
