Marco Antonio de Dominis

Markantun de Dominis, Markus Antonius de Dominis and Marco Antonio de Dominis ( kroat. Marko Gospodnetić ) (* 1560 Rab, Croatia today, † November 9, 1624 in Rome) was a Croatian bishop of Senj and Archbishop of Split. He was a theologian, philosopher, mathematician, physicist and author. Markantun de Dominis is counted among the most famous scientists of his era.

Life

Marko Gospodnetić was born in 1560 on the Croatian island of Rab His theology and philosophy studied at de Dominis with the Jesuits in Italy today. 1579 Dominis decided finally the Jesuit order in Novalleri enter. As a university professor he taught from 1581 to 1585 in the field of humanism at the University of Verona. His own studies in the field of theology continued de Dominis between the years 1588-1592 at the Theological Faculty Collegio Massimo in Padua continued. The ordination took place in 1592, the same time as Dominis taught as a professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Brescia to the year in 1595.

Episcopate

In 1596 Markantun de Dominis resigned from the Jesuit order and was appointed in 1600 to the bishop of the historic diocese of Senj and forwarded this to the year 1602. Due to its support of Venice, which was considered by the Senj - Uskoks as treason, he had in flee the course of a riot from Senj. Pope Clement VIII appointed Dominis on November 15, 1602 Archbishop of Split also the Primate of Dalmatia and Croatia in general. In his time as Archbishop of Split Dominis wrote his major work De Republica Ecclesiastica and led science experiments from the field of physics. Later served Dominis the findings from his experiments made ​​to explain the emergence of the rainbow scientifically. In the years 1604-1606 he stayed temporarily in Rome and Venice in 1607 and returned back to Split. In 1611 was de Dominis treatise De radiis visus et lucis in vitris, perspectivis et iride published in Venice. Ibid be de Dominis was in the year 1614. 1615 occurred in the Archdiocese of Split between him and the local clergy to disputes, so put Dominis in 1616 his episcopal ministry as Archbishop of Split Lower.

England

On his route to England Dominis published in Heidelberg his thesis Epistola ad Episcopos Ecclesiae Christianae scripta, in qua causas discessus sui from Episcopatu exponit against the Vatican, which was later reprinted in London. After his arrival on December 26, 1616 in London Dominis was solemnly received, especially after his final break with the Vatican. In the English government hierarchy Markantun de Dominis was in 4th place. He taught at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The University of Cambridge paid tribute to de Dominis scientific commitment with an honorary doctorate in theology. In England he published his major work De Republica Ecclesiastica and held protest sermons against the Vatican. His main work was included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. It is considered today as the oldest source of the sentence in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas, which can be found there as follows: Omnesque mutuam amplecteremur unit breathless in necessariis in non necessariis libertatem, in omnibus caritatem.

Inquisition

After the election of Gregory XV. to the Pope in 1622 made ​​his de Dominis from London via Brussels to Rome. Once there, de Dominis stated that he had deliberately lied against the Vatican. In this regard, he came into contact with the Inquisition. De Dominis was accused of heresy and spent his life under house arrest in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. In Rome Dominis published his last work Euripus seu de fluxu et refluxu maris sententia. Between the 8th and November 9th, 1624 Markantun Dominis died a natural death. His body and his personal works (including two unpublished volumes of his major work De Republica Ecclesiastica ) were burned by the Inquisition on December 21, 1624 in the Campo dei Fiori in Rome.