AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS
AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS

The journal AUC Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis, subtitled “Příspěvky k dějinám Univerzity Karlovy” (Papers on the History of Charles University), is a periodical devoted not only to the history of the Prague university but also to the history of education and student movement in the Czech lands. The journal, published since 1960 as part of the Acta Universitatis Carolinae series, also publishes essays presenting original historical sources (all texts are accompanied by summaries in foreign languages, mainly in English and German). It regularly publishes reviews and annotations of works on the history of education and annals of research activities.

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AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 57 No 2 (2017), 79–89

Neznámé listy Josefa Steplinga Maximilianu Hellovi

[Joseph Stepling’s Previously Unknown Letters to Maximilian Hell]

Josef Smolka, Hans Ullmaier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23365730.2018.52
published online: 25. 02. 2019

abstract

This contribution includes the text and commentary on three letters, which Joseph Stepling wrote to Maximilian Hell. Two of these letters were written in 1757, one in 1759, and all were discovered in the archive of the Viennese astronomical observatory. They fall into a period covered by Stepling’s correspondence reprinted in the Litterarum commercium (Vratislaviae 1782), which makes it an interesting contribution to this subject.

keywords: Joseph Stepling; Maximilian Hell; scientific correspondence; Enlightenment; eighteenth century

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