MONIKA BIZOŇOVÁ
INŠTITÚT HISTÓRIE, FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA, PREŠOVSKÁ UNIVERZITA V PREŠOVE
INSTITUTE OF HISTORY, FACULTY OF ARTS, PREŠOV UNIVERSITY IN PREŠOV
THE IMPACT OF THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN 1831 ON THE PARISHES OF THE BISHOPRIC OF SPIŠ
(BASED ON DUPLICATE REGISTRIES)
Abstract: The Bishop‘s Archive in the Spišská Kapitula in Spišské Podhradie preserves one of the most
important sources for researching about the past. It is a duplicate of registries from the territory of
the entire Spiš diocese (Spiš, Liptov and Orava region). These duplicates are written from 1788 to
the present (annually these duplicates are made and kept in the Bishops‘ Archive). One part of
this department are also duplicates of the registry of the deceased from 1831, which bring us very
important informations from the year of the spread of cholera in the Spiš diocese. The presented
study provides informations on the incidence of cholera in selected parishes and also provides
information on the number of deaths from the disease and comparation with another years.
Keywords: cholera; Spiš diocese; archive; duplicate; registry; year 1831; Roman Catholic Church
THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, Vol. 93, 2022, No. 3 – 4, Number of Article 3, p. 315 – 325.
DOI: 10.14712/12117617.93.3-4.3