Jan DÅ‚ugosz

January Dlugosz, Johannes Longinus, Joannes Dlugossius (* 1415 in Nowa Brzeźnica at Radomsko, † May 19, 1480 in Kraków ) was a Polish diplomat, geographer and historian.

Dlugosz studied from 1428 to 1431 at the Krakow Academy. In 1431 he was succeeded by his uncle Bartholomew Dlugosz and pastor of Kłobuck in Silesia as his successor at the parish church of St. Martin determined in Kłobuck and later donated the Kanonikerkloster in Kłobuck. 1436 he was a canon in Cracow. In the years 1433-1455 Dlugosz was a close confidant and secretary of the Krakow Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki. After his death in 1467 he entered into the service of King Casimir IV, from which he was entrusted with the education of royal sons and with numerous diplomatic missions. Among other things, he negotiated during the Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) between the Teutonic Order and Poland - Lithuania. Under his involvement came about the Second Peace of Thorn.

An appointment as Archbishop of Prague, he refused, shortly before his death in 1480 Dlugosz was appointed Archbishop of Lviv.

He is the author of the written in Latin twelve-volume Annales seu Cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae ( annals or chronicles of the glorious Kingdom of Poland ), which originated 1455-1480. An important part of it, Chorographia Regni Poloniae is an outstanding geographical description of the country. The first printed edition of this chronicle was published in 1614 ( censored), first complete edition in the years 1701-1703. A newly translated critical edition was published in 1961-2006 under the title Roczniki, czyli Kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego.

His " Banderia Prutenorum " of 1448 is one of the most important sources for timely Battle of Tannenberg (1410 ), the place of slaughter, Polish tradition following, as Grunwald (rather than green field near Tannenberg ) designated by Dlugosz is.

Dlugosz translated Wigand of Marburg Prussia Chronicle " Chronica nova Prutenica ", where numerous German proper names were Polonized from him.

Works

  • Liber ecclesiae beneficiorum Craceviensis
  • Annales seu Cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae
  • Banderia Prutenorum
Teutonic Knights Polish–Lithuanian union Integrated Authority File
242852
de