Bernard Bolzano: Band I,5: Vermischte Schriften 1827–1834

a. Letter from a Catholic clergyman to the author of the book: The Catholic Church in Silesia, 1827

b. History of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in the Years 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827

c. History of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences for the years 1827, 1828, 1829, and 1830, 1830

d. A Proposal for the Improvement of Certain Institutions for the Poor, 1831

e. Views of a Liberal Catholic Theologian on the Relationship Between Church and State; Developed in a Critique of Mr. A. Gengler’s Aphorisms on the Same Subject in the Third Issue of the 1832 Volume of the Tübingen Quarterly, 1834

The five shorter writings collected in this volume, which appeared anonymously between Athanasia (1827) and the Textbook of Religious Studies (1834), provide some insight into the breadth of Bolzano’s journalistic activity: In the two most extensive works, Bolzano critically examines theological issues (e.g., the primacy of the Pope and celibacy, as well as the relationship between church and state). In addition, there are two activity reports that Bolzano undertook to write as a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, as well as a socio-philosophical treatise on the improvement of institutions for the poor.