Wincenty Kadłubek

Wincenty Kadłubek (* 1150, † March 3, 1223 in Jędrzejów monastery) was a bishop of Kraków and Polish chronicler.

Life and work

Wincenty ( Vincencius ) Kadłubek probably originated südpolnischem nobility. After studying in Paris and Bologna from 1189 as Master of the Chancery of senior Duke Casimir II in Krakow active, he probably taught at the local cathedral school. After 1191 provost of Marie pin in Sandomierz, 1208 Bishop of Krakow, resigned in 1218 to retire at the Cistercian abbey Jędrzejów as a monk.

He wrote a four-volume to 1205 reaching Chronica Polonorum, Chronica seu originale regum et also principum Poloniae in excellent Latin. Add Book 1-3 Archbishop of Gniezno and John Bishop Matthew of Krakow carry a scholarly dialogue on the history of Poland, the fourth book is telling when interspersed with dialogue form bays, including a epicedium to the death of Casimir II, a scholastic embossed, written in 58 stanzas of trochaic dispute of personalized Maeror and Iocunditas (IV, 20).

His education consisted of Roman and canon law ( 180 citations), he knew many ancient and late antique authors, had a special fondness for Exempla from Justin Epitoma Pompei Trogi, tied to the neo-Platonic flow of the School of Chartres, the political philosophy and political mores of the John of Salisbury and Macrobius, the Paris dialectic and Vagantendichtung on, even to the Anglo-Norman schoolmaster, who worked in Paris. In the creative joy of extending the history Kadłubek must be placed in the vicinity of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Saxo Grammaticus.

His pragmatic interpretation of Polish history is placed under the idea of ​​political justice and the welfare of cives. Special attention was paid Kadłubek the Krakow sagas the southern Polish Lechiten ( Book I ), as legends of Krak, Wawel Dragon and the Wanda saga, the bloody conflict between King Boleslaw II and the Holy Stanislaus of Cracow, bishop of Krakow (double interpretation the churches and reasons of state: II, 16-20), the conflict Bolesław III. Wry-mouthed with his half-brother Zbigniew (II, 28-31), the rivalries of the princes for power in Krakow, the seat of the princeps of the princes, especially the rise of Casimir II in dealing with the large Polish Prince Mieszko III. , Of the Cracow as a tyrant appeared (IV, 2-5). Wincenty Kadłubek was beatified in 1764; Feast day is March 8.