Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok (Polish: Grzegorz z Sanoka, * 1403 in Sanok, † January 29, 1477 in Lviv ) was a professor at the Krakow Academy ( since 1813 Jagiellonian University ) in Cracow, Archbishop of Lviv, the first representative of humanism in Poland and critics of scholasticism.

Life

At twelve, Gregory left his hometown of Sanok in the direction of Krakow, where at that time German was as important as the language of urban and academic patricians, that he opened due to lack of knowledge of German is to cross the Elbe and to learn the language in Germany. His ten-year study trip led him probably to Italy. In 1428 he returned and he enrolled at the Kraków Academy. In 1433 he became professor of Roman poetry. Later, he was the first educator of the son of the Tarnowski family and then by Władysław III. (Poland and Hungary) ( 1424-1444 ), who was crowned already ten years old. Following his stay in Italy he was pastor, while maintaining close contacts with the scientific community in Krakow.

1440 to 1450 he lived in Hungary, where he educator of the sons of John Hunyadi was temporary and was staying at the court of the Bishop Vitez. After his return to Poland he became archbishop in Lviv ( Archiepiscopus leopoliensis ), where he first humanist court (?) Poland founded. Filippo Buonaccorsi dedicated to him in 1476, was still alive, a biography.