Andrzej Patrycy Nidecki

Andrzej Patrycy Nidecki ( Andreas Patricius, A. Patricus Striceco, A. Patricius Nidecicus, Nidecius, A. Patricius Nideczki, A. Patriczi Nideczki, Patrycy ; born November 27, 1522 in Oświęcim ; † January 2, 1587 ) was a Polish humanist , Philologist , publisher , royal secretary and bishop .

Life

Andrzej Patrycy Nidecki went to Krakow around 1536 and was educated there at the parish school of St. John's Church by Szymon Marycjusz and Wojciech Nowopolczyk . From the mid-1540s he was secretary, later also adviser and trustee of Bishop Andrzej Zebrzydowski , whom he accompanied on his numerous trips and appearances in the Sejm , for whom he wrote letters and probably also the brochures Oratio de heresi tollenda (1550), Krótka odpowiedź , List pasterski and Oratio postrema (1556).

With the support of Zebrzydowski, he traveled to Padua for the first time in 1553, where he attended lectures by the humanist Francesco Robortello and formed a warm friendship with Jan Kochanowski . After visiting Rome in 1556 he returned to Zebrzydowski's court, for whom he edited various texts (including the speech Pro sua et collegarum religione ac iciscidiori ). In 1557 he went again to Padua, where he devoted himself in particular to studying the works of Cicero . In 1559 he was promoted to doctorate in both rights.

After his return to Poland he was in the service of the Crown Chancellor Filip Padniewski from 1560 . During this time he published his work on the posthumous fragments of Cicero and established new relationships with prominent representatives of the intellectual world such as Jakub Górski , Jakub Montanus , Paweł Stempowski and Andrzej Gostyński . He also worked on an extensive monograph De Tribunis militum .

After Sigismund II's death in 1572, Nidecki worked as an advisor to Anna Jagiellonica . In 1573 he was ordained a priest and from then on wrote as an apologist and polemicist for the Roman Catholic Church ( Paralela Ecclesiae Catholicae cum haereticorum Synagogis , 1576). Stefan Batory reappointed him in the royal office in 1576 as advisor for Prussian affairs. In 1576 he wrote a description of the Danzig rebellion ( Commentarii de Tumultu Gedanensi , 1577). In 1580 he received the post of Canon of Cracow. Here he devoted himself again to his classical studies and published, among other things, four annotated speeches by Cicero. From 1583–1584 De ecclesia vera et falsa libri V appeared . From 1585 he was bishop of the diocese of Livonia , based in Wenden .

source

• Polish Biographical Dictionary - Patrycy Andrzej Nidecki