Jan Dubravius

John Dubravius ​​(after the list of bishops of Olomouc: John XVI Dubravius ​​, in Czech. Skala January z Doubravy; * 1486 probably in Pilsen, † September 6, 1553 in Kremsier ) was Bishop of Olomouc.

Career

John was born into the family of Skala Doubrava. His Latinized name Dubravius ​​is derived from Doubrava. He studied in Vienna, Pavia and Padua, where he. The academic degree of Doctor of Law utr. acquired. After his return from Italy he was a canon of the cathedral chapter and secretary of the Olomouc Olomouc Bishop Stanislaus of Thurzos, who later promoted him to the Bishop's Council and then to the Chancellor. He received further benefices as archdeacon and provost of Kremsier and provost of Wolframitzkirchen in Znojmo. After the knighthood he had received in 1517 by King Louis, he called himself Skala z Dúbravská az Hradiště, which he later also the additional z Blanště inflicted (of Doubravka and Hradisch on Blansko ).

As an ambassador and the Council of the bishop, he participated in the parliamentary deliberations on the defense against the Turks, and received for the associated earnings in 1526 by King Ludwig's Castle and city Lundenburg. In 1535 he was a member of the commission for the reform of the Moravian order.

Bishop of Olomouc

After the death of the Olomouc Bishop Bernhard Zoubek of Zdětín Dubravius ​​belonged with Jan Horák of Milešov (Johann Hasenberger ), the canon in Olomouc, Breslau and Prague was, on the possible succession candidates. After Horák waived upon payment of a pension to the succession, the chapter voted on April 4, 1541 John Dubravius ​​. The papal confirmation of 27 June of the year took place on January 2, 1542 consecrated bishop by the Bishop of Cracow.

Even as a bishop took Dubravius ​​as a representative of the Bohemian King and later Emperor Ferdinand I to the Bohemian Landtag part. 1544 and 1545 he negotiated the royal commission with the Bohemian estates over the Turks help. He tried to renew the Prague Archbishopric and negotiated in this regard with the Utraquist consistory a union with the Catholic Church. Unsuccessful, he sat down during the uprising of 1547 stands for a waiver of the stands on a rebellion.

As a humanist and diplomat Dubravius ​​had little inclination for religious and pastoral tasks. In his diocese he fought for the economic and legal interests of the episcopal estates. He completed the construction begun under Stanislaus Thurzos of the bishop's residence. The Utraquists he refused to priestly ordinations; In 1548 he supported also the expulsion of the Bohemian Brethren.

Through his studies at Conrad Celtis and his work for Bishop Thurzos who promoted the Olomouc circle of humanists, Dubravius ​​also emerged with his own works to the historiography. In addition, however, he was also the author of a statement for fish farming and fish pond technology, which he wrote for the Upper Hungarian companies by Franz Anton Fugger and Thurzos.

Works

  • Historia regni Boihemiae. Proßnitz 1552
  • Theriobulia Joannis Dubravii immersive De regiis praeceptis. Nuremberg in 1520 ( translation of Versallegolie Nova rada Smil Flaška of Pardubice)
  • De piscinis. Nuremberg 1596
  • Jo. Dubravii, Olomuzensis episcopi, Historia Bohemical. Frankfurt 1687
  • Book of the ponds and the fish, which are grown in the same; in five booklets, Wroclaw 1547 ( trans. and Edit. Wüstner by A. and J. Kollmann, Vienna 1906)
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