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Felix Kadlinský (18 October 1613 in
Horšovský Týn13 November 1675 in
Uherské Hradiště) was a
Jesuit
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Baroque
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author and translator into
Czech.
In 1635 he joined the
Jesuit Order and became a teacher of ''
studia humaniora'' at the Jesuit college in Jitschin (
Jičín) in East Bohemia. From 1639 he was rector for 11 years of the college in Ungarisch-Hradischt (Uherské Hradiště) in
Moravia. He produced translations and paraphrases of spiritual works, especially those of the German Jesuit
Friedrich Spee, which glorify an idyllic peaceful world, presumably in reaction to the horrors he experienced during the
Thirty Years' War.
[ Bohuslav Balbin: ''Bohemia docta'', Prague 1677]
Selected publications
Translations in prose
* ''Zdoroslavíček v kratochvilném hájíčku postavený'' – paraphrases of the song collection ''Trutznachtigall'' ("Rivalling the Nightingale") by Friedrich Spee, his most significant work, containing religious songs and songs glorifying nature
* ''Zrcadlo bolestné Matky Boží Panny Marie'' ("Mirror of the suffering Mother of God the Virgin Mary"
* ''Život a sláva svatého Václava'' ("Life and fame of
Saint Wenceslas")
* ''Život svaté Ludmily'' ("Life of
Saint Ludmila
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") (ascribed to Kadlinský)
* ''Pokladnice duchovní'' ("Spiritual Treasure-chest") – meditation and observations on withstanding life
* Numerous church texts, partly from the works of Friedrich Spee
* ''Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe'' ("Belief, Hope, Love"), 1662, after Friedrich Spee
References
1613 births
1675 deaths
17th-century poets from Bohemia
Czech male poets
Czech Jesuits
Czech translators
People from Horšovský Týn
17th-century male writers
17th-century translators
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