Felix Kadlinský


Felix Kadlinský was a Jesuit, Baroque 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 in East Bohemia. From 1639 he was rector for 11 years of the college in Ungarisch-Hradischt 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.

Selected publications

Translations in prose

Zdoroslavíček v kratochvilném hájíčku postavený – paraphrases of the song collection Trutznachtigall by Friedrich Spee, his most significant work, containing religious songs and songs glorifying natureZrcadlo bolestné Matky Boží Panny Marie Život svaté Ludmily Pokladnice duchovní – meditation and observations on withstanding life
  • Numerous church texts, partly from the works of Friedrich SpeeGlaube, Hoffnung, Liebe, 1662, after Friedrich Spee