Jan Łasicki
Jan Łasicki ( Latin : Johannis Lasitii or Lasicius ; * 1534 ; † 1602 in Zasław near Sanok ) was a Polish historian and theologian.
Łasicki studied between 1556 and 1581 in Western Europe, including in Basel , Geneva , Zurich and Heidelberg . Here he advertised a comprehensive education, befriended leading Reformed theologians such as Johannes Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger , and converted to Calvinism around 1557 . Sometime after 1567 he became a supporter of the Bohemian Brothers .
His main work is the eight-volume Historia de origine et rebus gestis fratrum Bohemicorum . Of this, however, only one volume has survived, which deals with the customs and organization of the Bohemian Brethren and was first published in 1660. Another of his works is Historia de ingressu Polonorum in Valachiam cum Bogdano from 1584, which deals with the Polish invasion of Wallachia . This work was translated into Polish by Władysław Syrokomla in 1855 . The unprinted manuscript of his History of France ( De rebus gestis Franciae libri ) has been lost, as has his polemical writings against the anti-Trinitarians . His eighteen-page work On the Gods of the Samogites and Other Sarmatians and False Christians (De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum et falsorum Christianorum) , written around 1582 and published in 1615, provides a list of Lithuanian deities and is an important source in researching the Lithuanian ones Mythology .
literature
- H. Barycz: Le premiers contacts de Jan Lasicki avec la culture occidentale (1556-1561) (= Acta Poloniae Historica 25). Warsaw 1972.
- Karol Karski: Lasicki, Jan. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1192-1193.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jones Prudence, Nigel Pennick: A history of Pagan Europe . Routledge 1995, p. 176. ISBN 0-415-09136-5 .
- ↑ a b Jonas Zinkus u. a .: Lasickis, Jonas . In: Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija II. Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, Wilna 1985-1988, p. 482. LCC 86232954. (Lithuanian).
- ↑ Paul P. Bockstaele: The correspondence of Adriaan van Roomen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Lias. Sources and documents relating to the early modern history of ideas 3 (1976), p. 88.
- ↑ Endre Bojtár: Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People . CEU Press 1999. p. 316. ISBN 963-9116-42-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Łasicki, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lasitii, Johannis; Lasicius, Johannis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish historian and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1534 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1602 |
| Place of death | Zasław at Sanok |