Hieronymus Balbus

Girolamo Balbi (also Hieronymus Balbus, eigtl Accellini ) (* around 1450 in Venice, † 1535 in Venice ) was an Italian humanist and bishop.

Life

Balbi was born Venetians and took his mother's maiden name, his real name was Accellini. At a young age he was in Rome a student of Julius Pomponius Laetus. The future Pope Pius IV was his fellow student. From 1489 to 1492 he held at the University of Paris lectures on canon law, moral philosophy and astronomy. Due to a conflict with some students and the accusation of heresy and immoral life ( he was defended by Erasmus of Rotterdam), he left Paris. After a stay in England, he came to Padua and was called from there in 1494 by Maximilian I to the University of Vienna, where he participated in the Sodalitas Danubiana of Conrad Celtis ).

When he tried to return home via Hungary to Italy in 1499, he was robbed and wounded by robbers in a forest, which he had to return to Vienna again. There followed a long teaching career in Prague, which earned him much admiration. The Hungarian King Ladislaus entrusted him with the education of Prince Ludwig and his sister Anna. As a reward he received the Provost St. Martin awarded in Bratislava, after he had just entered the Bishop of Pécs in the clergy. Several times he was sent in diplomatic affairs abroad, he took part in the wedding celebration of Polish King Sigismund in Krakow. In 1520 he appeared as the Hungarian ambassador to the coronation of Emperor Charles V at Aachen. At the Diet of Worms, he spoke out sharply against Luther.

On March 11, 1522 he was Pope Adrian VI. appointed Bishop of Gurk. On March 25, 1523, he received episcopal ordination in Rome by Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci. On this occasion, he lived in the palace of the Pope and intercourse with many scholars. His prior Hadrian VI. put forward speech on the Turkish threat and the general pacification was used in Rome in printed version. It was only on December 17, 1523, he took from his cathedral in Gurk possession. In a first synod, he warned against the Lutheran doctrine and urged the clergy to hold on to the old ways.

Because of his frequent absences him a coadjutor was set aside with Anthony Salamanca- Hoyos. In his castle in Strasbourg, he wrote his work De fortitudine that went into Rome in pressure. In 1526 he resigned for unknown reasons as Bishop of Gurk, and he returned to Venice. 1530 he took part in the coronation nor Charles V in Bologna. He died in poverty and was buried in the church of San Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.