Johann Georg Triegler (Trigler): A Half-Forgotten Intellectual from the Turn of the Sixteenth Century, Former Owner of the Chansonnier Compiled for Beatrice of Aragon

The famous manuscript made in the late 1460s or early 1470s for Princess Beatrice of Aragon is nowadays known as the Mellon Chansonnier. Beatrice took this codex with her to Central Europe, where in 1476 she married the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus. After his death, in 1491, Beatrice married Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary, but this second marriage was declared unlawful by the pope and in 1501 Beatrice returned to Naples. The codex evidently remained somewhere in Central Europe, because in 1609 the musician Matthaeus Roth, from Glatz, donated it to the scholar Johann Georg Triegler, who was active mainly in Moravia and Upper Silesia and in 1614 published his German translation of the medieval treatise De Sphera. Triegler died before 1622 and, besides the Mellon Chansonnier, four sixteenth-century prints from his estate are preserved in libraries in the Czech Republic. It is still not clear what happened to the Mellon Chansonnier after Triegler’s death, but the codex was later owned by the French collector Joseph Vitta (1860–1942). In 1939 it was bought at an auction in London by Paul Mellon, who donated it to the University of Yale.

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Innovation of the concept and content of technology education in the Czech Republic in context with their development in the countries of central Europe

International Handbook of Technology Education ◽

10.1163/9789087901042_034 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 463-475

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Technology Education ◽

Central Europe ◽

The Czech Republic

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Transitional Justice and Changing Memories of the Past in Central Europe

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1017/gov.2013.37 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 24-44

Author(s):

Roman David

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Central Europe ◽

Transitional Justice ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Divided Societies ◽

The Past ◽

The Impact

Memories of wrongdoings are often viewed as an obstacle to reconciliation in divided societies. Is it due to the past or the present politics of the past? To examine the dilemma of essentialism versus presentism, this article investigates the impact of transitional justice on memories of wrongdoing. It theorizes that using different transitional justice strategies to deal with the same wrongdoing shapes memories in different ways. The theory is tested via vignette-based surveys in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, which adopted distinct lustration laws. The results show that wrongdoing is viewed through lustration laws, reflecting present power constellations, not history.

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The impact of the air temperature on measuring the zenith angle during the year in the ground layer of the atmosphere for the needs of engineering surveying

Acta Polytechnica ◽

10.14311/ap.2021.61.0476 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 476-488

Author(s):

Tomáš Suk ◽

Martin Štroner

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Numerical Model ◽

Central Europe ◽

Air Temperature ◽

Zenith Angle ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Temperature Gradients ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Different Seasons ◽

The Impact

This paper presents the results of over a year-long experiment dealing with a temperature measurement to calculate the theoretical effect of the atmosphere on the measured zenith angle in engineering surveying. The measurements were performed to determine the accurate and specific temperatures (temperature gradients), which can be recorded in different seasons in the low level of the atmosphere (up to 2 m above the ground, where most Engineering Surveying measurements take place) for the geographical area of Central Europe - specifically the Czech Republic. A numerical model was then applied to the resulting determined temperature gradients to calculate the path of the beam passing through an inhomogeneous atmosphere. From these values, the apparent vertical shifts caused by refraction in a given environment and time were finally determined.

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A new specimen of Araucaria fricii from the early Coniacian of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe

Fossil Imprint ◽

10.37520/fi.2021.020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 (2) ◽

pp. 282-286

Author(s):

Jiří Kvaček

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Central Europe ◽

Bohemian Massif ◽

Type Material ◽

Massif Central ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

First Occurrence ◽

Bohemian Cretaceous Basin ◽

Cone Scale

A specimen of Araucaria fricii is described from the upper part of the Teplice Formation in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It extends the first occurrence of A. fricii from the mid-Coniacian back to the early Coniacian. Found in the Radovesice locality near Kučlín in the northern part of the Czech Republic, it is characterised by a deltoid cone scale complex with a centrally placed seed. It is compared to the type material of A. fricii from the mid-Coniacian Březno Formation and other European Cretaceous species of Araucaria. The taphonomy and palaeoecology of A. fricii is briefly discussed.

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ICT in agrarian sector of the CR

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/5444-agricecon ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 49 (No. 11) ◽

pp. 540-542

Author(s):

J. Vaněk ◽

J. Jarolímek

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The Internet ◽

Real Situation ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Agrarian Sector ◽

Key Factor ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The University

The fact that the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a key factor of development of individuals, regions, sectors and whole countries is well known at the beginning of the 21st century. The real situation of ICT utilization is very different in particular sections and it fails to reach standards that we would expect. The sphere of the agrarian sector of the Czech Republic is a very good example. The Information and Consulting Centre FEM at the University of Agriculture in Prague (IPC) has been participating on research of the utilization ICT in agriculture for three years. According to the latest data from July 2002, 55% of agrarian enterprises are connected to the Internet, which is much less than in other sectors.

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Analysis of the scores of competency test

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201821004006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 210 ◽

pp. 04006

Author(s):

Jana Pasáčková

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Study Programme ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Long Term Monitoring ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

Term Monitoring

Since decreasing level of knowledge of mathematics is the problem at universities, not only in the Czech Republic, we try to define some reasons for that between our students from different secondary schools. The paper discusses the results of the examinations in mathematics at the university in the Czech Republic. The aim is focused on the differences between the scores of students from different secondary schools. We compare the results of two tests which students have to pass during the semester. In addition, we compare the impact of introducing a new subject called “Math seminar”. This seminar should help students to complete their knowledge of topics from mathematics of secondary schools. We observe the improvement of students who passed the Math seminar. We observe the impact of passing the school-leaving exam from mathematics as well. We would like to consider this as a part of a long-term monitoring of students in this study programme and re-analyze unsuccessful students after they pass the course “Math seminar”.

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Meeting Czech Knowledge Management Challenges Head-On

Knowledge Management in Emerging Economies ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-886-5.ch002 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 20-46

Author(s):

Richard Brunet-Thornton ◽

Vladimír Bureš

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Success Factors ◽

Management Tools ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Critical Success ◽

Implementation Methodology ◽

The University ◽

Further Development

In the Czech Republic, Knowledge Management-related problems occur at all knowledge stages with difficulties more predominant at an organisational level. In principal, they originate from the lack of an utilisable and detailed KM implementation methodology; varying perceptions of KM coupled with the notion, that KM equates and is limited to information technologies and the like. As a reaction to these problems, the Faculty of Informatics and Management at the University of Hradec Králové (FIM UHK) developed a new KM implementation methodology. It aims to provide interested parties with a set of ground rules distributed among a number of phases. Further development is underway to elaborate the method by integrating project management tools, benchmarking exercises and critical success factors. Despite this endeavour, there is an on-going need for further research given the reality that small and medium sized enterprises constitute the majority of organisations in the Czech Republic.

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Predicted climate change will increase the truffle cultivation potential in central Europe

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-020-76177-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tomáš Čejka ◽

Miroslav Trnka ◽

Paul J. Krusic ◽

Ulrich Stobbe ◽

Daniel Oliach ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Central Europe ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Truffle Cultivation ◽

Ecological Requirements ◽

Wide Range ◽

Future Warming

AbstractClimate change affects the distribution of many species, including Burgundy and Périgord truffles in central and southern Europe, respectively. The cultivation potential of these high-prized cash crops under future warming, however, remains highly uncertain. Here we perform a literature review to define the ecological requirements for the growth of both truffle species. This information is used to develop niche models, and to estimate their cultivation potential in the Czech Republic under current (2020) and future (2050) climate conditions. The Burgundy truffle is already highly suitable for cultivation on ~ 14% of agricultural land in the Czech Republic (8486 km2), whereas only ~ 8% of the warmest part of southern Moravia are currently characterised by a low suitability for Périgord truffles (6418 km2). Though rising temperatures under RCP8.5 will reduce the highly suitable cultivation areas by 7%, the 250 km2 (3%) expansion under low-emission scenarios will stimulate Burgundy truffles to benefit from future warming. Doubling the moderate and expanding the highly suitable land by 352 km2 in 2050, the overall cultivation potential for Périgord truffles will rise substantially. Our findings suggest that Burgundy and Périgord truffles could become important high-value crops for many regions in central Europe with alkaline soils. Although associated with uncertainty, long-term investments in truffle cultivation could generate a wide range of ecological and economic benefits.

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