Andrzej Krzycki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish archbishop
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Place of Birth: Krzycko Małe, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Andrzej Krzycki
- Andrzej Krzycki herbu Kotwicz (also Andreas Cricius) (Krzycko Male, 7 July 1482 – † Skierniewice, 10 May], 1537) was a Renaissance Polish writer and archbishop.
- Krzycki wrote in Latin prose, but wrote poetry in Polish.
- He is often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers. He earned an education at the University of Bologna studying under prominent humanists, and started a career in church hierarchy in 1501.
- In 1512, Barbara Zapolya married King Sigismund I the Old.
- Krzycki wrote a verse to commemorate this marriage, and became Zapolya's secretary the same year.
- When the king won the victory of Orsza, he again wrote a poem, and sent verses purporting to be from the queen to her absent husband after the model of Ovid's Epistolae Heroidum; these, in a letter to Krzycki, Erasmus praised enthusiastically.
- After Barbara's death he continued to be chancellor in the household of Bona Sforza, Sigismund's second wife.
- He took orders and managed to obtain rich benefits, and even a bishopric. The Reformation, then rapidly spreading, filled him with dismay, and was the occasion of the most serious work that he produced, Religionis et Reipublicae quaerimonia (1522).
- When Albert of Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, became a Lutheran, and Sigismund I recognized him as his vassal and Duke of East Prussia, Krzycki in a letter written to Baron Pulleon, tried to explain and justify this action of his sovereign.
- He finally rose to the highest clerical office in his country, that of Primate Archbishop of Gniezno.
- He was a patron of youthful talent, as in the case of Klemens Janicki.
- His last work, De Asiana Dieta, was a criticism of the Polish diets or assemblies common in his time.
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