Antun Vrančić
Antun Vrančić (also Anton Wranczy , lat. Anthony Verantius , Hungarian. Antal Verancsics ) (* 29. May 1504 in Sibenik , Dalmatia , now Croatia ; † 15. June 1573 in Eperjes ( slow. Prešov ) Sáros County , Upper Hungary , now Slovakia ) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Gran . He also worked as a scientist and diplomat.
Life
Vrančić was born in Šibenik in 1504 and came from a Croatian noble family. His uncle, the Croatian Ban and Bishop of Veszprém Petar Berislavić, took care of his education . Vrančić himself also took care of his nephew, later Bishop Faust Vrančić .
Antun Vrančić spent his studies in Padua , Vienna and Krakow . At the age of 26, Vrančić was initially secretary to Prince Johann Zápolya of Transylvania . His diplomatic career began after Zápolya's death at the Habsburg court . For Ferdinand I and Maximilian II , Vrančić represented Habsburg at the Holy See , at the Sublime Porte , in France, Poland, in the Republic of Venice , as well as in England and Italy. In 1530 he became provost of Buda .
During his four-year stay in the Ottoman Empire , Vrančić, together with the diplomat Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq , made the archaeological discovery of the Augustinian report “ Res gestae divi Augusti ”. On August 3, 1554 Vrančić was appointed Bishop of Pécs , on July 17, 1557 he was appointed Bishop of Eger .
He was ordained bishop on September 21, 1561 by the Archbishop of Esztergom , Nicolas Olah . One of his greatest diplomatic successes was the Adrianople Peace Treaty , which was signed in 1568. For this merit he was appointed Archbishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary on October 15, 1569 . On his many diplomatic trips, Vrančić came into contact with Philipp Melanchthon , Erasmus von Rotterdam and Paolo Giovio . On 25 September 1572 he crowned - in its capacity as primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom - in Bratislava he St. Martin Rudolf II. For Apostolic King of Hungary .
On June 5, 1573, Pope Gregory XIII appointed him . to the cardinal . The news from Rome did not reach Vrančić, he died on June 15, 1573 in Eperjes (Slov. Prešov ). His resting place is, at his own request, in the Church of St. Nicholas in Tyrnau (Slov. Trnava ).
literature
- Manfred Stoy: Vrančić, Antun . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe. Volume 4. Munich 1981, pp. 442-444.
Web links
- Works by and about Antun Vrančić in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Antun Vrančić on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Verancsics, Antal. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed April 18, 2020.
- Portraits in the Early Modern Digital Portrait Index
- Magyar életrajzi lexicon (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Meyer Setton: The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The Sixteenth Century , Volume IV. The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-87169-162-0 , pp. 921-922.
- ↑ to Magyar katolikus lexikon (see web links)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| György Tompa |
Bishop of Fünfkirchen 1554–1557 |
Juraj Drašković from Trakošćan |
| František Ujlaky |
Bishop of Erlau 1557–1569 |
István Radeczy |
| Miklós Oláh |
Archbishop of Gran 1570–1573 |
Miklós Telegdy |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vrančić, Antun |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verancsics, Antal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Esztergom, diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1504 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Šibenik , Dalmatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1573 |
| Place of death | Prešov , Upper Hungary , today Slovakia |