Books with ownership inscriptions of Johann Heinrich Grozian in the library of archbishop Theophan (Prokopovich)

Abstract

This article continues the authors’ series of publications devoted to the book collections of 17^th-century residents of Dorpat, which later became part of the library of Theophan (Prokopovich), Archbishop of Novgorod and Velikie Luki. Based on a study of the handwritten inventory of the Novgorod theological seminary library for 1929/1930 – compiled by V. V. Maikov at the State Public Library in Leningrad – and of books identified in the holdings of the Russian National Library, the authors have reconstructed part of the personal library of the Dorpat Protestant pastor Johann Heinrich Grozian (1659–1723). The article publishes a list of 104 books bearing Grozian’s ownership inscriptions. This list can be used both to reconstruct Grozian’s library and to define his reading interests, as well as to study the intellectual history and the circulation of books of the 16^th–17^th centuries in Germany, the eastern Baltic, and cities of the Baltic region connected to it. The list may also be of interest to specialists studying private book collections – particularly the library of Archbishop Theophan (Prokopovich) – and to scholars researching the history of education in Russia in the 18^th–19^th centuries. Some of the books preserve notes recording their issuance to Novgorod seminary students, making it possible to identify additional study literature used in the teaching of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology.