Václav Budovec z Budova
Václav Budovec z Budova (German Wenzel Wilhelm Freiherr Budowecz von Budowa ; born August 28, 1551 in Janovičky ; † June 21, 1621 in Prague ) was a Bohemian reformer, diplomat and writer.
Life
Václav Budovec was the landlord on Janovičky, Mnichovo Hradiště and four other villages. He was a Bohemian gentleman from May 5, 1607. As a young nobleman, he studied at the University of Prague and from 1569 to 1571 at the University of Wittenberg . He then went on trips abroad in 1577 and met leading Protestant theologians . The Calvinist Théodore de Bèze exerted the greatest influence on him . From 1577 to 1581 Wenzel Budowecz was court master of the imperial ambassador Joachim von Sinzendorf in Constantinople . Turkish and Arabic were added to the languages he already spoke.
In 1584 he returned to Prague , was Appelationsrat at the Appeal Court , then chief tax collector in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was a leading member of the Bohemian Brethren and head of the non-Catholic class opposition in Bohemia. In the history of Bohemia he also inscribed himself as a participant in the unsuccessful aristocratic uprising under the rule of Rudolf II and his brother Matthias .
In 1603 he gave a speech against the persecution of non-Catholics and for freedom of belief. In the following years he radicalized his point of view; Budovec now spoke out in favor of an armed defense of Protestantism, if necessary. After the invasion of the Passau people of war in Bohemia, like most other Bohemian aristocrats, he turned away from Rudolf II and supported the election of his brother Matthias as Bohemian king. In 1609 he played a key role in obtaining the letter of majesty with which Emperor Rudolf II guaranteed freedom of religion to the Bohemian estates.
In the following years he also took an active part in political events. In 1618 he was the leading representative of the class uprising . He took part in the meeting at Smiřice , but he was not involved in the defenestration . However, he was a member of the Directory of the Bohemian Estates and co-author of the second, more extensive Estates Apology . He also took part in the election of Elector Friedrich , known as the "Winter King", as King of Bohemia. From this he was appointed president of the appeal.
After the Battle of White Mountain , Budovec took his family abroad and returned to Prague. In February 1621 he was imprisoned. On June 21, 1621 he was executed in the Old Town Square in Prague.
family
Budovec came from a prehistoric noble family in Bohemia , which, according to the chronicle of the historiographer Cosmas, is derived from a Georg, castellan of Žatec and whose uninterrupted lineage begins with Wenzel Budowecz of Budowa (1335 called "the fourth").
His father Adam II (around 1504, † Nové Hrady July 24, 1585) was the imperial chief provisions and field customs master, then mint master in Kutná Hora and land clerk in the Kingdom of Bohemia. His mother was Johanna, daughter of Adaukt Ritter von Clum and Anna, née Popel von Lobkowitz. Budovec married Anna Zakupsky von Wartenberg, daughter of Nikolaus von Wartenberg auf Reichstadt and Magdalena, née von Mausswitz, in Prague in 1582. The daughter Salomena of her two children died at a young age; the son Adam III. Adolph auf Choczniegiwicz was the imperial chamberlain and died in 1628 in exile in Haag in the Netherlands.
Works
- Bibliography of his works in Pelzel's: Illustrations of Bohemian Scholars, III, Prague 1777, p. 84 ff.
- His stay in Turkey and the study of the Koran formed the basis of his work Anti-Alkoran , which appeared in 1614. In it he describes the political and social state of Turkey at that time. The writing ends with a polemical condemnation of the Muslims .
- In his book Akta a příběhové he describes the debates and negotiations in the Bohemian state parliament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on the website of the Mnichovo Hradiště City Museum
- ↑ According novel by Procházka on Choczniowes, Zasaz, Semczicz and Zahradka.
- ↑ documented May 13, 1116 "Jurik filius Sdan, praefectus urbis Satec, miles acerrimus"
- ↑ Budowecz von Budow family tree (a) with coat of arms In: Roman von Procházka : Genealogical manual of extinct Bohemian gentry families. Supplementary volume, published by the board of the Collegium Carolinum (Institut) Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-54051-3 , pp. 21–24.
- ^ To Suchdol, Janowiczky, Slatinian and Dobrowiczewes
literature
- Noemi Rejchrtová: Václav Budovec z Budova . 1st edition. Melantrich, Prague 1984.
- Josef Petráň: Staroměstská exekuce . 4th edition. Rodiče, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-86695-44-1 .
- Milada Kaďůrková: Velcí humanisté II. 1st edition. Veronika, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm 2000, ISBN 80-902159-5-5 .
- Roman von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentlemen's families, supplementary volume, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1990, Budowecz von Budow (a), p. 21–24 with numerous other references, ISBN 3-486-54051-3 .
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich-Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 162.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Václav Budovec z Budova in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Budovec z Budova, Václav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Budovec z Budova, Vaclav; Budovec, Wenceslaus from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian reformer, diplomat and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1551 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Janovičky near Hradec Králové |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1621 |
| Place of death | Prague |