Die Erinnerungsgeschichte der Verfolgung ungarischer Galeerensklaven protestantischen Bekenntnisses im Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts

In the long 18th century described as the period of “peaceful Re-Catholicization” or“Catholic Restoration” in the writings about the ecclesiastical history of differentcongregations, the Roman Catholic Church used every means to push Protestants intothe background and to render their lives impossible. As a result of intensified ReCatholicization, diverse means were employed to confront the communities andindividuals, from the occupation of churches or schools and collective punishments,through the public humiliation and terrorization of individuals, to bloody torture and theannihilation of their livelihood. The partly violent spreading of Catholicism resulted inmany controversial cases in the Carpathian Basin, which were reported on manypublications in Western Europe. The examination of the early printed books in theLutheran collection of books in Halle (Franckesche Stiftung) has brought numerousrelevant texts from a Hungarian perspective to the surface, which allow studying thedanger-fraught life circumstances of Protestants in the Carpathian Basin in the 18thcentury through the eyes of an external observer.