ABSTRACT
In Breslau, as in Szepes County, the members of the Respublica obviously maintained relationships with other social circles; they were continually exploiting their various business, commercial and political relationships to participate in debates on – and find solutions to – problems which confronted their city and Silesia as a whole. Researchers who have studied the situation in Breslau have determined that Silesian humanists’ active participation in the European Respublica – and in fact, the existence of the network itself – directly affected the development of Silesian baroque literature. The compositional similarities of their longer texts constitute another striking commonality between Ambrosius and Horvath. Ambrosius’ story might thus corroborate an inversion of Szakály’s assertion as well: the life and work of a Protestant pastor in the borderlands might be important to the people understanding of late humanism in Central Europe, the everyday life of an international network of intellectuals and a period of enormous cultural change.
