Ulrich Hosse

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Ulrich Hosse (* approx. 1455 Pforzheim ; † 1535 Vilnius ) worked for Sigismund I in Krakow as a mint master for a while . From there he went to Vilnius in Lithuania as a mint master , where he later also became mayor.

Life

Ulrich Hosse turned to the teaching of Martin Luther and supported the reformers in Vilnius. In 1524 he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church as a supporter of the Reformation . He bought land in Vilnius and donated bricks for buildings that later belonged to the Evangelical Church of Augsburg. His son Johann Hosius also became mayor of Vilnius.

The religious convictions of his son Stanislaus Hosius , who was an ardent advocate of the Roman Catholic Church, developed quite differently . He became a bishop, then prince-bishop of Warmia and in 1561 a cardinal .

literature

  • AFA: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Vilnius. A chronicle written for the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary . Verlag von Joseph Zawadzki, Wilna 1855. Therein Chapter 1: The Reformation in Wilna , pp. 7-21 ( digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

Footnotes

  1. ^ AFA: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wilna. A chronicle written for the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary . Publisher by Joseph Zawadzki, Wilna 1855, p. 10.
  2. ↑ AFA: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wilna , p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Hosse, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mintmaster, Mayor of Vilnius
DATE OF BIRTH around 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 1535
Place of death Vilna