Jacob of Iłża

Jakob von Iłża (Polish Jakub z Iłży ; * around 1490 , † after 1542 ) was a Polish Reformation scholar and humanist .

Life

He came from the city of Iłża in Mazovia. From 1509 Jakob studied at the Academy in Cracow. There he was shaped by humanists such as Johannes Silvius of Sicily, Claretti and Paul von Krosno. In 1511 he became a baccalaureus , in 1516 a master's degree .

Jakob became a lecturer at the Collegium Minor in Cracow and a priest at St. Stephen's Church. He began teaching Lutheran ideas in the mid-1520s . In 1528 he was exhorted by Bishop Peter Tomicki of Cracow to return to correct teaching. In 1534 heresy proceedings were opened against him . Jakob fled to Breslau in the Duchy of Silesia . In 1535 he was convicted in absentia and his teaching post in Cracow was withdrawn from him. This was the first theological trial against a Lutheran teacher in Poland.

Jakob was then a Lutheran preacher in the Silesian town of Tarnowitz . He was venerated by later Protestant theologians as an important pioneer of Reformation thought in Poland.

literature

• Wacław Urban: Jakub z Iłży i jego uczniowie . In: Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce. Volume 36. Wrocław, 1992. pp. 209-212

Web links

• Jakub z Iłży Encyklopedia Krakowa