O protestanckiej „miłości bliźniego”, czyli toruńska Ordinanz des Vorsteher-Amst wegen der Haltungen vor die Armut z 1665 roku

• Autorzy: Bartosz Drzewiecki , Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

Warianty tytułu

EN

About Protestant love to one’s neighbor – Toruń’s Ordinanz des Vorsteher-Amtswegen des Haltungen vor die Armut of 1665

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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The article concerns the legal grounds for the activity of five (not including the lazaret) hospitals in Toruń in the mid-17th century. The rules of 1665 how to manage this type of institution, preserved in the form of copies from the beginning of the 18th century, constitute the source base of the article and the edited appendix to it. The document is an amendment to the rules of 1570, which was necessary due to the war and the change in the economic situation in the city. It discusses the hierarchical system of hospital management such as the authority of provisors (Provisores), the hospital supervisors (Vorstehern), their director (Director des Vorsteher Amts) and lower rank personnel, as well as the manner of managing the property of the institution which included e.g. proceeds from confiscations, the lease of the hospital’s estates, fines, money collections, special rents and charges for the stay in hospital. The authors also addressed a very important category of proceeds such as foundations, bequests and legacies, which referred to the ideology of Christian mercy. The authors also touched upon the question of the rules of the execution of back rents from eases, which must have been a significant problem for hospital supervisors (Vorstehern) in the face of the social-economic situation in the second half of the 17th century. Thus, the problem was thoroughly discussed in the article. The conclusions from the analysis of the rules confirm Weber’s thesis about the beginnings of the spirit of capitalism. Hospitals in Protestant towns were to work in an economic way. Apart from looking after the sick and the poor, they were to generate profits, or at least to be financially self-sufficient.

Słowa kluczowe

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Torun in the 16th century; hospitals; care for the poor; provisor; hospital superintendent

• Wydawca: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
• Czasopismo: Zapiski Historyczne
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: 77
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 51-66

Twórcy

autor

Bartosz Drzewiecki,

autor

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

• Katedra i Zakład Historii Nauk Medycznych, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu ,