Jan Černý-Nigranus
Jan Černý-Nigranus (Latin Johannes Nigrinus ; * around 1500/1510 in Kunvald ; † February 5, 1565 in Mladá Boleslav ) was bishop of the Unity of the Bohemian Brothers and Historians.
Life
In 1537 he was ordained a priest and worked in Brandeis in the unity of the Bohemian Brothers under the protection of the noble Konrad Kraiger von Kraigk († 1572). As he barely escaped arrest after hostility in 1543, he fled to Prague.
After a fire in 1546 the Litomyšl archive destroyed the Brethren, he started all documents relating to the pursuit of the collection Hussite related. With this he founded the history of the Brothers' Union. He was supported by the later bishop of the Brethren Jan Blahoslav , the scribe Matěj Červenka and others.
If no originals were found, he filled the gap with reliable records. After the repression of the class uprising in 1547, he fled to Poland and Prussia with the bishop of the brothers Mácha . In 1550 he was appointed representative of the bishop and three years later, together with Matěj Červenka, one of the four bishops. In 1558 he was appointed magistrate.
Works (selection)
- Acta Unitatis Fratrum
- Poznamesání některých skutků Božích obzvláštních
literature
- František Kutnar : Přehledné dějiny českého a slovenského dějepisectví I . Prague 1973, OCLC 944407214 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Latin name, cf. David Cranz: Old and New Brothers History or Brief History of the Evangelical Brothers Unity. Ebers, Barby 1771, p. 93 ( digitized in the Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Černý-Nigranus, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jan Černy; Johannes Nigrinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of the University of Bohemian Brethren and Historians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kunvald |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1565 |
| Place of death | Mladá Boleslav |