Maletius (family)
Maletius (variants: Malecius, Malecki , Maletzki, Meletius, Menecius, Miletius) is the name of an East Prussian family.
family
The first verifiable bearer of this family's name is Johannes Maletius , who immigrated from the vicinity of Kraków to East Prussia in September 1536 , at that time still under the name Sandecki (after his hometown ). With the award of a property by Duke Albrecht on October 16, 1544 , he acquired real estate and in the following time changed his name from Sandecki to Malecki, whose Latinized form is Maletius and which all of his descendants have since carried. Johannes Maletius is the progenitor of a large East Prussian family of pastors and officials (mainly foresters and teachers), many of whom are related by marriage to other pastor families. To date, well over 1000 descendants are known, but very few of them bear the name Maletius. Among them are z. B. Hans Bernd Gisevius , Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein , Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein and others. Since the 16th century, the family expanded within East Prussia. Many namesake studied at the University of Königsberg .
coat of arms
The Maletius family belongs to the Jelita coat of arms .
Blazon of the coat of arms according to the Siebmacher : "In red three silver-tipped golden tournament lances; two of them are placed in the diagonal cross, while the third fallen down also crosses the former . "a growing natural billy goat" according to the more modern Polish description.
Well-known namesake
- Hieronymus (I) Maletius (* 1525 in Neu Sandez , † 1583 in Lyck ), Masurian theologian, printer and ducal-Prussian translator and interpreter for Polish and Russian
- Johannes Maletius (* around 1492 in Neu Sandez , † 1567 in Lyck), Masurian printer, theologian and translator of the Reformation period
- Johann (III) Maletius (* around 1670 in Bialla , † 1738 in Johannisburg ), mayor, town clerk and judge in Johannisburg
- Martin Maletius (* 1634 in Bialla , † 1711 in Königsberg i. Pr. ), Theologian
Sources and literature (selection)
Primary sources
- Many original documents on the Maletius family are stored in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem. Most of them can be found there under the identifier "XX HA EM ...".
Secondary sources
- Benecker, Ernst (1887): History of the royal high school in Lyck, Lyck.
- Gollub, H. (1929): The two printers and archpriest Maletius. In: Königsberg contributions.
- Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb (1803): General learned lexicon, continuations and additions by JC Adelung, Vol. 4 [from 1313].
- Koch, Franz (1903): The last print of the Archpriest Johann Maletius in Lyck. In: Old Prussian Monthly XXXX. Volume, seventh and eighth booklet Königsberg.
- Krollmann, Christian (1939): Old Prussian Biography , Vol. I, p. 416.
- Moeller, Friedwald (1968): Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book, Hamburg.
- Polska Akademia Nauk Institut Historii (ed.): Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Tom XIX, Wrocław / Warszawa / Kraków / Gdańsk: Polskiej Akademii Nauk 1974, p. 295ff.
- Sembrzycki, Johannes (1888) The Lycker archpriest Johannes and Hieronymus Maletius and the first letter […], - a source for Eastern Lithuania. In: Old Prussian Monthly XXV. Volume, seventh and eighth issue, Königsberg.
- Sembrzycki, Johannes (1889) Subsequent remarks… In: Old Prussian Monthly XXVI. Volume, seventh and eighth issue, Königsberg.
- Tschackert, Paul (1890): Document book on the Reformation history of the Duchy of Prussia, Leipzig [of which Volume 1, p. 233 ff and Volume 2, No. 1055].
- Völker, Karl (1921): On the history of the Reformation in Poland. In: Journal of Church History, ed. Otto Scheel et al. Leopold Zschernack, XXXIX. Vol. New Series II, Gotha [from it p. 182].