Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+ and Scopus. It is published by the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It comes out twice a year. Every second issue is international and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The journal is registered under the number ISSN 1803-7860.
Aither 33/2025:72-105 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2025.007
The article summarises the current state of knowledge concerning the reception of the neo-Stoic philosophy of the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius in the Czech lands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It identifies previously unused sources and outlines guidelines for future in-depth research into this phenomenon. The study offers a theoretical reflection on different modes of reception and evaluates the potential of various types of evidence, including correspondence, annotated copies of Lipsius’s seminal dialogue De constantia (1584) found in bourgeois, ecclesiastical, and aristocratic libraries, the Czech translation of Lipsius’s work by Kryštof Mathebaeus Bohdanecký, the use of Lipsian theses in disputations at the University of Prague, and the direct inspiration drawn from Lipsius by Mikuláš Troilus, Caspar Ambrosius, Jan Amos Comenius, and Bohuslav Balbín. The principal aim of the article is to review existing knowledge about Lipsius’s reception in the Czech milieu and to propose methodological approaches for its further investigation.
Received: October 7, 2025; Revised: November 18, 2025; Accepted: November 19, 2025; Published: December 31, 2025 Show citation
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