Joachim Andreas von Schlick
Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Count of Passaun and white churches (Czech: Jáchym Ondřej Hrabě Šlik; born September 9, 1569 Schlackenwerth, † June 21, 1621 executed in Prague) was a leader of the Protestant estates in Bohemia.
Life
The silt, originally a resident of patrician in the free imperial city of Eger and 1422 collected with Kaspar Schlick to the peerage, had come with the mining industry in Joachimsthal ( Jáchymov ) to wealth. Schlick's parents were Julius Graf von Schlick and Anna Ungnad of White Wolf. Joachim Andreas von Schlick studied in Jena and was tutor to the princes at the Saxon court in Dresden.
Schlick's estate was mainly in western Bohemia. By his second marriage to Anna Katharina Smiřický of Smiřice he obtained in 1614 the North Bohemian Good Svijany Turnova. His son Julius († 1623) and his two daughters were from his first marriage to Anne of Liebstein and Kolowrat.
From the turn of the century he was involved intensively in the politics of his homeland and indeed on the side of the stands opposition to Emperor Rudolf II to the Bohemian diet he wore in 1608 the Emperor of Budovec written by Wenzel petition before, with the demanded the Protestant Estates for themselves freedom of religion. At the turn of 1608/1609 he was involved in the negotiation of the Treaty of Liben. In March 1609 he joined again as speaker of the stalls at the Hradcany to Emperor Rudolf II out without being able to achieve something. He was then sent from the stands opposition to Dresden, there to win the support of the Saxon Elector Christian II for the Protestant cause. In June, he was again sent as Speaker of the stands to the emperor, to pass the draft of the Letter of Majesty.
Following the adoption of the Majesty Briefs Schlick was voted one of the 30 defensores the Protestant religion in Bohemia. Energetic now he sought the construction of churches for Lutherans. Schlick reached that could be held in Prague's St. Benedict Church Lutheran church from 1609. The construction of the Church of St. Salvator and the associated school goes much back to his initiative. He had acquired the building site and donated 1200 dollars for it. The school was in 1611, the church opened in 1614. At St. Salvator, the Saxon court preacher Matthias Hoe of Hoënegg worked until 1613 as a school principal. This the Calvinists hostile clergy was at the time of the Estates Uprising, a bitter enemy of Count Schlick.
Even compared to the new rulers of Bohemia, Emperor Matthias, mud went straight in opposition. Schlick 1614 belonged to those nobles who summarized the deposition of Habsburg as King of Bohemia in the face and wanted to offer the throne of Johann Georg of Saxony. Nevertheless, he settled in 1617 persuaded the emperor to vote for his nephew Ferdinand II as successor in Bohemia. His vacillation became clear when he again worked on the opposition shortly after the momentous decision against the Habsburgs.
After the Second Defenestration of Prague from 1618 he was the leader of the provisional government in Prague. He was entrusted by the stands with the drafting of the Second Apology, which should justify the actions of the Bohemian rebels before the European public. 1619 advocated Schlick a choice of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I. King of Bohemia, but could not prevail, and the choice fell on the later " Winter King " Frederick of the Palatinate. Schlick was then but at the top of the feudal envoy, who welcomed Friedrich on the border with the forest Assen as the new King of Bohemia. The new king appointed him in the summer of 1620 Governor of Upper Lusatia. In this office but silt could hardly unfold effectiveness, since the occupation of Markgraftums began in September.
After the defeat of the Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain silt hidden 1621 Castle Friedland, which belonged to his cousin Christoph von Rederns. He was taken betrayed and captured by troops of the Saxon Elector and taken to Dresden. At the request of Emperor Ferdinand II, Johann Georg I. gave him to Prague, where he was beheaded in Old Town Square as the first of 27 leaders of the Bohemian revolt openly, his right hand is nailed to the gate of the Old Town Bridge Tower of Charles Bridge. He was buried in St. Saviour's Church.
With the Saxon court preacher Matthias Hoe of Hoënegg to Schlick 1619 yielded a highly regarded by his contemporaries journalistic debate, about the relationship between Calvinists and Lutherans.