Jan Blahoslav

January Blahoslav ( German Johannes Blahoslaus; Latin Joannes Blahoslaus; born February 20, 1523 Přerov, † November 24, 1571 in Moravian Krumlov ) was Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren. He was a great humanist and writer. He also wrote a Czech grammar and lyrics and translated the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament in the vernacular. He used to some extent the pseudonym Apteryx.

Life

January 1540 Blahoslav attended high school in Proßnitz and from 1543 the Protestant grammar school in Goldberg in Silesia, whose Rector Valentin Trotzendorf was. In 1544 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, where he met Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. In 1546 he returned to Proßnitz and in 1548 he went to Mladá Boleslav, where he ordered the archives for the Brethren short time. From 1549 he studied at Königsberg and then in Basel. 1552, he returned to Jungbunzlau, where he was ordained a year later as a priest. On behalf of the Brethren, he undertook several diplomatic trips to Germany and to the sovereign to Vienna, where he tried to secure the release of the brothers Bishop January Augusta.

After January Blahoslav was elected in 1557 as brothers - bishop of Moravia, he lived in Eibenschütz, where he in 1562 founded seminary and a printing company that had to work in secret. In her translated into Czech by him from the Greek and Latin New Testament was printed in 1564. It appeared under the title " Nový zákon (z jazyku řeckého ) vnově do češtiny přeložený Léta Páně 1564 v Ivančicích ". Four years later, the second edition followed ( secunda editio diligenter recognita anno 1568). This translation also formed the basis for Volume VI of the Kralice Bible, which was 1593/1594 printed in Kralitz where the yew guards printing in 1578 had to be postponed.

January Blahoslav died 1571 in Moravian Krumlov. His body was interred in Eibenschütz.

Works (selection)

  • O původu Jednoty bratrské Radu v ní, 1547
  • Gram Atika česká, 1551-71
  • Musica, to jest Knizka zpěvákům náležité zprávy v sobe zavírající, 1558 (This title is the oldest music-theoretical work in the Czech language )
  • Kancionál šamotulský, 1561
  • Filipika proti misomusům, 1567
  • In the song collection písně chval božských several songs by Jan Blahoslav are included
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