Abstract: Since the beginning of the modern era, Trnava has been not only a religious center, but also an educational and cultural center, mainly due to the founding of Trnava University in 1635. One of its most important parts was the printing house. However, after the university moved to Buda in 1777, book printing in Trnava did not end, as typographer Václav Jelínek founded his own printing workshop in 1788, continuing the Trnava printing tradition. Trnava thus remained an important cultural center at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, when it became the center of the Bernolák movement. During its existence, the Jelínek printing house published several hundred book titles and became the central printing workshop of the Slovak Learned Society. The aim of this study is to map and analyze the production of the Jelínek printing house in the context of rural parishes, specifically in selected parishes of the Lesser Carpathian region and on the Great Rye Island, with particular emphasis on the contribution of these publications to the studied environment, as evidenced through canonical visitations from the first half of the 19th century.

Author: Lopatková, Zuzana – Ristovská, Radoslava

DOI: 10.17846/CL.2025.18.2.134-146

Publication order reference:
Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Lopatková, PhD.; Trnava University, Faculty of Philosophy and Art, Department of History, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8890-4562
Mgr. Radoslava Ristovská, PhD.; Trnava University, Faculty of Philosophy and Art, Department of History, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3762-192X

Source: Konštantínove listy, 2025, vol.: 18, issue: 2, pages: 134-146 (PDF file)

Keywords: HISTORY, EDITORSHIP, PRINTER, TRNAVA, PARISH LIBRARY

Language: ENGLISH

Recommended Citation:
Lopatková, Zuzana – Ristovská, Radoslava. 2025. Production of the Trnava Printing House of Václav Jelínek and Ján Krstiteľ Jelínek (1788 – 1841) in a Rural Parish Environment. In Konštantínove listy [Constantine’s Letters] 18/2, 134-146.