Andreas Dudith
Andreas Dudith of Horehowicza , also Andreas Dudith Sbardellati , Andreas Duditius de Sbardellatus , Andreas Dudelius de Stardelaccis (Croatian Andrija Dudić , Hungarian András Dudith , Czech Ondřej Dudic for Horehovic , Polish Andrzej Dudycz ; * 5. February 1533 in the oven ; † February 2 1589 in Breslau ) was a Hungarian humanist , bishop , imperial diplomat and Reformed Protestant .
Life
Dudith was born in Hungary and came from a Croatian noble family. His mother, who gave him his nickname Sbardellatus , was a Venetian of the Sbardellati family. He studied in Venice and Padua , among others . He was titular provost of Felhévíz (near Óbuda ), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Gran and was ordained bishop of Tina (southern Croatia) in 1560 . From 1562 to 1563 Dudith was Bishop of Csanád . At the Council of Trent in 1562, Dudith was one of the proponents of the lifting of the ban on chalice communion for lay people and later also called for celibacy to be abolished . Between 1563 and 1567 he was Bishop of Fünfkirchen . In the diplomatic service of Emperor Maximilian II , Dudith stayed at the Polish royal court in Krakow in 1566 , where he secretly became engaged to a lady-in-waiting. In 1567 he submitted his resignation from the office of bishop, converted to Protestantism , married and moved to Krakow. Pope Pius V banned him and had his picture publicly burned in Rome. When his wife died after seven years of marriage, Dudith entered into a second marriage in 1574 with Elżbieta Zborowska, the widow of Count Jan Tarnowski.
In Krakow, Dudith campaigned for the election of Maximilian II to the Polish throne and left Poland after Stephan Báthory's coronation . Of Rudolf II. Dudith was elevated to the Moravian baron and bought in 1578 the rule Paskau in Moravia . Since he did not like life in the remote town and the management of the estates, he sold Paskau in 1579 and moved to Breslau, where he turned back to scientific work and gathered a group of Calvinist-humanist scholars around him. Dudith's epitaph is in the Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw . His daughter Regina married the Polish nobleman and Unitarian Hieronymus Moskorzowski after his death in 1595 .
See also
- Salomon Gesner (1559–1605), educator in the Dudith house
literature
- Siegfried Wollgast: Morphology of Silesian Religiosity in the Early Modern Era: Socinianism and Anabaptism. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 419-448, here: pp. 432-434.
Web links
- Dudith from Horehovicza . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 377-378 ( zeno.org ).
- Dudith Sbardellati, Andrea (1533-1589) in Dizionario del pensiero cristiano alternativo (Italian)
- De Cometis Dissertationes Novae Clariss. Virorum Thom. Erasti, Andr. Dudithij, Marc. Squarcialupi, Symon. Grynaei . Basileae 1580, online edition of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
- Andrija Dudić - Life and Works (Croatian) (PDF; 97 kB)
- Entry on Andreas Dudith on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Wollgast: Morphology of Silesian Religiosity in the Early Modern Era: Socinianism and Anabaptism. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 419-448, here: p. 432.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dudith, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dudith von Horehowicza, Andreas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Humanist, bishop, imperial diplomat, Protestant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1533 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | oven |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1589 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |