Voditeljica projekta dr. sc. Teodora Shek Brnardić sudjelovala je na 10. bijenalima Češkog društva za 18. stoljeće (The Czech Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies). Skup tematski povezan s 250. godišnjicom prvoga izdanja Methodenbuch opata Ignaza von Felbigera (1775.) nosio je naziv “Universal Schooling and School Reform in the Late 18th Century Perspectives from the Habsburg Monarchy and Central Europe”. Održan je od 6. do 7. studenog 2025. u Pragu u prostoru Nacionalnog pedagoškog muzeja i knjižnice J. A. Comenius koji je bio suorganizator zajedno s Filozofskim fakultetom Karlovog sveučilišta.
Programska knjižica dostupna je ovdje.
Izlaganje pod naslovom „Reimagining Noble Upbringing: Franz Joseph Kinsky’s Enlightenment Educational Reforms“ bilo je održano prvoga dana bijenala u tematskom bloku o pedagoškim teorijama i razmišljanjima. Austrijski general i češki grof Franz Joseph Kinsky (1739.-1805.) znamenita je ličnost češkog nacionalnog preporoda jer je u to vrijeme zagovarao učenje češkog jezika. Dr. sc. Shek Brnardić predstavila je kontekst i sadržaj njegovih djela o plemićkom obrazovanju koje je u praksu pretočio kao dugogodišnji ravnatelj vojne akademije u Bečkom Novom Mjestu. Iznijela je rezultate novijih arhivskih istraživanja i projektni rad na njegovom rukopisnom putopisu po hrvatskim zemljama i Banatu 1788. godine.
Na skupu je izlagalo dvadesetak istraživača iz Češke, Austrije, Ukrajine, Srbije, Mađarske i Poljske.
Sažetak:
In the eighteenth century, the anthropologisation of the world view—rooted in investigations of human nature—proliferated across Europe. This trend also reached the Bohemian Crown lands, which contemporaries seldom associated with Enlightenment because of serfdom and the Catholic Counter-Reformation milieu. Yet local figures, such as the Austrian General and Bohemian Count Franz Joseph Kinsky (1739–1805), leveraged privately acquired knowledge of human nature (Germ. Menschenkenntnis) to exhort noble compatriots to refine their manners and to reform their educational practices. These efforts culminated in Kinsky’s educational treatises Erinnerung über einem wichtigen Gegenstand von einem Böhmen (1773) and Über die Hofmeister (1776), directed at noble audiences. In these works, Kinsky outlined programs for cultivating a young nobleman and offered guidance to parents on the attributes and competencies a good tutor should possess. The central aim of this paper is to examine the “human language” embedded in Kinsky’s texts, both in the domain of noble education and in military pedagogy. I argue that a Christian conception of humanity was not antithetical to the Enlightenment anthropological project. In addition, I will be presenting new archival sources that supplement Kinsky’s biography. This includes an engagement with his manuscript travelogue through Croatia, Slavonia, and Banat (1788), as part of the Croatian Science Foundation project “Between Knowledge and Ignorance: Ideas, Practices and Legacy of the Enlightenment in Croatian Lands” (IP-2024-05-5581).
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