1754–1825 The pastor who wrote down a whole countyFarár, ktorý zapísal celú stolicu

For much of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the Lutheran pastor here was Ladislav Bartholomaeides (1754–1825), and he did something unusual for a village clergyman: he wrote his county down. His long Latin description of Gemer set out its villages, its mines, its rivers, its people and its history in a detail nobody had attempted before, and historians use it still. This is what the Enlightenment looked like in a poor Slovak village — not palaces and academies, but a parish minister with a notebook who decided that ordinary places deserved to be recorded. He is one reason so much is known about Gemer at all.Väčšinu konca 18. a začiatku 19. storočia bol tunajším evanjelickým farárom Ladislav Bartholomaeides (1754 – 1825) a urobil niečo, čo od dedinského kňaza nikto nečakal: opísal celú stolicu. Jeho rozsiahly latinský opis Gemera zachytil dediny, bane, rieky, ľudí i dejiny do podrobností, o aké sa dovtedy nikto nepokúsil, a historici z neho čerpajú dodnes. Takto vyzeralo osvietenstvo v chudobnej slovenskej dedine — nie paláce a akadémie, ale farár so zápisníkom, ktorý usúdil, že aj obyčajné miesta si zaslúžia byť zapísané. Aj vďaka nemu vieme o Gemeri toľko, koľko vieme.