Re: more on Uppsala MS

[Rene Zandbergen <rene@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Reeds wrote:

> A friend just told me that Gerhard Strasser's _Lingua Universalis_
> mentions the Uppsala MS:  "that Emperor  Ferdinand II learned Czech with the help of this
> Trithemian-style  book. 

actually, that should be Ferd. III

> this is one of the prime reasons why Ferd.  II asked Kircher around 1652
> (or 54) to analyze Trithemius, a work that  finally and ultimately resulted
> in the 1666 _Polygraphia_. The intro. to  _Poly_ should state this
> fact, too." 

I wonder if the intro does mention the name of Ferd's teacher.
Up to now, I always thought that the reference in Marci's letter
to:

> Dr. Raphael, tutor in the Bohemian language to Ferdinand III, then King
> of  Bohemia, told me ...

might have been obscure to Kircher. Now it would seem that Kircher may
have known perfectly well whom Marci was talking about. 

Regards, Rene