Johannes Dubravius

Johannes Dubravius
copper engraving by Johann Balzer (1772)

Johannes Dubravius, Bishop of Olomouc (1541–1553)

Johannes Dubravius (according to the list of bishops of Olomouc: Johannes XVI. Dubravius ; Czech: Jan Skála z Doubravy ; *  1486 probably in Pilsen ; † September 6, 1553 in Kremsier ) was Bishop of Olomouc .

Career

Johannes came from the Skála von Doubrava family. His Latinized name Dubravius ​​is derived from Doubrava. He studied in Vienna, Pavia and Padua, where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. iur. utr. acquired. After his return from Italy he became a canon of the Olomouc cathedral chapter and secretary of the Olomouc bishop Stanislaus von Thurzo , who later promoted him to the episcopal council and then to the chancellor. He received further benefices as archdeacon and provost of Kremsier and provost of Wolframitzkirchen near Znaim . After the accolade, which he in 1517 by King Ludwig had received, he called himselfSkála z Dubravská az Hradiště , to which he later added the addition z Blanště ( from Doubravka and Hradisch to Blansko ).

As envoy and councilor of the bishop he took part in the state parliament deliberations on the defense against the Turks and received for the related services in 1526 from King Ludwig castle and city of Lundenburg . In 1535 he was a member of the commission for the reform of the Moravian national order.

Bishop of Olomouc

After the death of Bishop Bernhard Zoubek von Zdětín from Olomouc , Dubravius was one of the possible successors alongside Jan Horák von Milešov ( Johann Hasenberger ), who was canon in Olomouc, Wroclaw and Prague. After Horák renounced his successor in return for a pension, the cathedral chapter elected Johannes Dubravius ​​on April 4, 1541. The papal confirmation of June 27th of that year was followed by the episcopal ordination by the auxiliary bishop of Kraków on January 2nd, 1542 .

Dubravius ​​also took part in the Bohemian state parliaments as a bishop, representing the Bohemian king and later emperor Ferdinand I. In 1544 and 1545 he negotiated on royal orders with the Bohemian estates about aid to the Turks. He tried to renew the Archdiocese of Prague and negotiated with the utraquist consistory about a union with the Catholic Church. During the class uprising of 1547, he unsuccessfully campaigned for the classes to renounce the rebellion.

As a humanist and diplomat, Dubravius ​​had little inclination for religious and pastoral tasks. In his district he campaigned for the economic and legal interests of the episcopal property. He completed the construction of the episcopal residence begun under Stanislaus von Thurzo. He refused priestly ordinations to the Utraquists; In 1548 he also supported the expulsion of the Bohemian brothers .

Through his studies with Conrad Celtis and his work for Bishop Thurzo, who promoted the Olomouc humanist group, Dubravius ​​also emerged with his own works on historiography. In addition, he was also the author of an instruction on fish farming and fish pond technology, which he wrote for the Upper Hungarian companies of Franz Thurzo and Anton Fugger .

Works

• Historia regni Boihemiae. Proßnitz 1552
• Theriobulia Joannis Dubravii sive De regiis praeceptis. Nuremberg 1520 (translation of the capitals Nová rada by Smil Flaška von Pardubitz )
• De piscinis. Nuremberg 1596
• Yo. Dubravii, Olomuzensis episcopi, Historia Bohemica. Frankfurt 1687
• Book of the ponds and the fishes that are bred in them ; in five little books, Breslau 1547 (translated and edited by A. Wüstner and J. Kollmann, Vienna 1906)

literature

• Winfried Eberhard. In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448–1648. ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , pp. 137-139

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard Zoubek from Zdětín	Bishop of Olomouc 1541–1553	Markus Kuen