Mikuláš Drabík
Mikuláš Drabík (also Drábik , German Nikolaus Drabik, Latin Nicolaus Drabicius ) (born December 5, 1588 in Strasbourg , † July 16, 1671 in Pressburg ), was a priest of the Unity of the Bohemian Brethren .
Life
He came from a middle-class family and was probably a classmate of Johann Amos Comenius . Both were ordained priests in 1616. Drabík became the administrator of the Brethren in Valašské Meziříčí and retired to Lednice (now Lednica ) in the Váh Valley after the Battle of the White Mountain .
Drabík had had visions since the late 1930s . He prophesied the decline of the Habsburgs and papal power, the liberation of Bohemia and Moravia and the return of the exiles . Many believed his clairvoyant abilities, including Comenius (Komenský), who published his visions as well as those of Christoph Kotter and Christine Poniatovska in his book Lux in tenebris .
Drabík ultimately paid for his statements against the Habsburgs and the Pope with his life. At the age of eighty, he was brutally executed on the Rathausplatz in Pressburg and his body was publicly cremated in front of the gates on the banks of the Danube.
The historian Jan Evangelista Kosina wrote about Drabík: "He was a nefarious man, a greedy blackmailer of a nefarious character, a fickle and vengeful drinker." His contemporaries, including his compatriots from the Brethren, characterized him in a similar way.
literature
- ( Johann Amos Comenius ): Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ…. 1657 ( digitized version )
- (Johann Amos Comenius): Historia revelationum Christophori Kotteri, Christinae Poniatoviae, Nicolai Drabicii. 1859 MDZ reader
- (Johann Amos Comenius): Revelationum divinarum, in usum seculi nostri quibusdam nuper factarum, Epitome. Ad cito, quid sibi praesens terribilis mundi commotio velit pervidendum, indeque serio metum dei concipiendum, et per poenitentiam veram ultimum interitum praeveniendum…. 1863. MDZ Reader
- (Johann Amos Comenius): Lux e tenebris, novis radiis aucta. Hoc est. Solemnissimae divinae revelationes, in usum seculi nostri factae. Quibus I. De populi Christiani extrema corruptione lamentabiles querelae instituuntur. Per immissas visiones, et angelica divinaque alloquia, facta I. Christophoro Kottero Silesio, from A. 1616 to 1624. II. Christianae Poniatoviae Bohemae, annis 1627, 1628, 1629. III. Nicolao Drabicio Moravo, from A. 1638–1664. (Amsterdam) 1665. MDZ Reader
- P. Kleinert: Drabik (Drabicius), Nikolaus . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 5, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, pp. 2-3.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : DRABIK (Drabicius), Nikolaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1374.
- A. Patera: Korespondence a listy Mikuláše Drabíka. In: Časopis českého muzea (ČČM) 73 (1899), pp. 59-74
- F. Karšai: Jan Amos Komenský a Slovensko. Bratislava 1970
- Libor Bernát: Mikuláš Drábik - Visionary of Religious Or Political? In: Studia Comeniana et historica 29 (1999), 61, p. 56-81
- Libor Bernát: Drábik's Criminal Process 1671. In: Studia Comeniana et historica 31 (2001), 65-66, pp. 60-120
- Jürgen Beyer: Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550-1700) (= Brill's series in church history and religious culture, vol. 74). Suffering u. Boston: Brill 2017, pp. 156-158, 309f.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drabík, Mikuláš |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mikulas Drabik; Nikolaus Drabik; Drábik, Drabicius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moravian priest of the Bohemian Brethren |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1588 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Straßnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1671 |
| Place of death | Bratislava |