Andreas Dudith

Andreas Dudith of Horehowicza, Andreas Dudith Sbardellati, Andreas Duditius de Sbardellatus, Andreas Dudelius de Stardelaccis (Croatian Andrija Dudić, Hungarian András Dudith, Czech Ondřej Dudic z Horehovic, Polish Andrzej Dudycz; born February 5, 1533 furnace, † February 2nd 1589 in Breslau) was a humanist, bishop, Imperial diplomat, a Protestant.

Life

Dudith was born in Hungary and came from a Croatian noble family. He studied in Venice and Padua. In 1560 he was consecrated bishop by Tina ( Southern Croatia ). From 1562 to 1563 was Dudith Bishop of Csanád. At the Council of Trent in 1562 Dudith belonged to the proponents of the ban lifted the chalice for the laity and later demanded the abolition of celibacy. Between 1563 and 1567 he served as Bishop of Pécs. In diplomatic services of Emperor Maximilian II Dudith stayed at the Polish royal court in 1566 in Krakow, where he became engaged secretly with a maid of honor. In 1567 he handed in his resignation from the Episcopate, a, converted to Protestantism, married and moved to Krakow. Pope Pius V took him with the spell and had his picture in Rome burning public. When, after seven years of marriage, his wife died, joined Dudith 1574 a second marriage with Elżbieta Zborowska, the widow of Count Tarnowski January.

In Krakow itself Dudith sat for the election of Maximilian II a on the Polish throne and left after the coronation Stephan Báthorys Poland. By Rudolf II Dudith was raised to the Moravian baron and bought 1578 Paskau rule in Moravia. Since he did not like life in the small rural town and the management of estates, he sold Paskau 1579 and moved to Breslau, where he turned back to scientific work and a Calvinist humanist circle of scholars gathered around him. His epitaph is in the Wrocław Elisabeth Church.