Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova

Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova (the elder) , also Johann Hodiegowsky von Hodiegow, (born January 6, 1496 in Chotěřina (today a place called Kotýřina , a district of Kovářov in Okres Písek ), formerly Choterina in the district of Mühlhausen ( Milevsko ); † February 11, 1566 in Repiz (Řepice), Strakonice District (Strakonice)) was a member of a Bohemian nobility family, humanist and patron.

origin

Jan the Elder came from the Bohemian nobility of the Hodiegowsky von Hodiegow (pronounced: Hodjejowski), which first appears in a document with Hniewek von Hodiegow (Hodejov in the Strakonitz district). (Lib. Confirm. I, Emler II, 387), whose presumed son Bernhard Hodiegowsky von Hodiegow was burgrave of the great fortress of Helfenstein (Helfstyn Castle) that dominated the Moravian Gate at the beginning of the 15th century , with whose grandson Johann the Elder the uninterrupted Trunk row begins. (T. Mitis von Limuz: “Farragines” III, Prague 1561). The ancestral coat of arms shows in blue diagonally to the right a silver carp curved slightly upwards with its head turned towards the upper right half of the shield.

Life

From 1537 to 1555 Jan / Johann was deputy judge of the lands of the Bohemian Crown . In 1552 he bought a castle and set up an important library here. He lived in Tloskow, Mühlhausen ( Milevsko ) and Marssowicz and was probably married to Katharina, née Kawka von Rziczan. The castle became the center of humanism and poetry in Latin in Bohemia. He gathered around himself a circle of artists and scholars, whereby humanistic education was more important than national origin.

He promoted the professor (lecturer) of the Charles University in Prague Matthaeus Collinus , Georg Handsch von Linura (* 1559 in Bohemian Leipa, died 1595 (?) At Ambras Castle near Innsbruck), writer and doctor (1553 University of Padua), and gave the Suggestion for "Kronika Ceska" by Hagecius (Hagek, Hajek) von Libotschan and is the uncle of the poet Bohuslav Hodiegowsky (* around 1525, died 1553). He was in contact with Šimon Proxenus, a Lutheran humanist and student of Philipp Melanchthon .

His grandson Smil, on Tloskow and Wilksicz, was a poet at the court of the "Winter King" of Bohemia Friedrich V (Palatinate) , chamberlain and envoy in Hungary, sentenced to death in 1621, ostracized and died after 1622 in The Hague.

obituary

The literary historian and critic Arne Novák (1880–1939) wrote about Hodějovský: “... he enjoyed receiving learned friends and supported them not only through personal relationships, but also through gifts and financial support for studies. Although he was a Catholic, he was not interested in the religious attitudes of his friends. ”Among others, he promoted the writers Matthaeus Collinus , Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku , Václav Hájek z Libočan but also the printer and publisher Mikuláš Konáč z Hodiškova . He encouraged the latter to write a Bohemian chronicle. He also sponsored the publication of the Latin poetry collection Farragines poematum. This four-volume work contained poems by several authors.

biography

• J. Martínek: De Hodeiovini bibliothecae reliquiis, Listy filologické 1955
• J. Martínek: O zahraničních studiích Jana Hodějovského, Listy filologické 1960

literature

• Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume I R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 644
• Novel von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1973 ISBN 3 7686 5002 2 , there: Hodiegowsky von Hodiegow 117 f.
• Bohuslav Balbinus: Bohemia docta, 1777