This would primarily happen in larger schools because in smaller schools they would only have one teacher. was both collega and teacher simultaneously in Ruzomberok between 15.
Sometimes a teacher would hold several posts. For instance, assistant teachers were referred to as coUega, socius, locatus, Geselle, hypodidascalus, preceptor, magister, curator classis, syner-gus, Lehrer, auditor, and classicus. Positions tended to be referred to by several names. The term "teacher" is used purposefully because at that time there was a difference between a rector (headmaster) and his assistants - conrec-tors, colleagues, teachers, etc. The teaching profession began to be regarded as the first stage in the clerical or pastoral profession. These events resulted in a "turn" in the religion and helped to make religion a part of education. Naturally, they were influenced by the "paradigm" of the reformation and it manifested itself in their political, economic and educational activities. Many of the members of these families had studied at foreign universities, in Wittenberg (Jân Ostrozic, Gaspar Sunog, Imrich Thurzo), Strasbourg (J. Noblemen and patrons had a key role to play - Count Juraj Thurzo (and his relatives), the Illéshâzy counts (Illyéshâzy, Ilieshâzy, Illéshâzy, Ileshâzi), the Osztrosith barons (Osstrosic, Ostrosith, Ostrozic) and other landowners. There were some offices with no school at all (Slopnâ, Kolârovice, Kvacany and others) and some offices with not one but two schools (Lip-tovsky Mikulâs and Okolicné, Dolny Kubin and Zâskalie). The number of parish offices and schools depended on the political situation.
ġ A superintendency is a district under the jurisdiction of a superintendent, the head of a dioceses of the Evangelical Church. They were quite independent and the superintendent (Bernat, 2007) was their only connection.
The lesser autonomous districts were called seniorates There were three sen-iorates in the region of Trencin - Hornotrencianske, Dolnotrencianske and Hradnanske. Geographically, we will concentrate on the families in the regions of Trencin, Liptov and Orava, which formed a separate superintendency1. In the 16 th century Lutheran teachers faced fundamental changes as a consequence of the reformation, and one of its demands in particular - the end of the celebacy of clergymen, who represented a section of the intelligentsia, the elite, and constituted a class concerned with pastoral activities and education The aim of this article is to investigate how the class of Lutheran teachers and their family relationships were established The socio-economic status of this group will not be considered since it requires a study of its own. Keywords: teacher, clergyman, family, school, study, teaching post, reformation, Catholic Reformation It describes the formation of the families and their background. (illustrated by the example of the Trencin, Liptov and Orava superintendency)Ībstract: The article deals with changes in the status of teachers and the shaping of Lutheran families of teachers in the 16 th and 17 th centuries in the Trencin, Liptov and Orava districts of the superintendency. The shaping of the Lutheran teaching profession and Lutheran families of teachers in the 16th and 17th centuries