Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl
Georg Erasmus
Tschernembl was born on 26 January 1567 in
During the Upper Austrian peasant revolt of 1596–1597, Tschernembl condemned the peasants for resorting to violence but urged a settlement of their grievances. With Gotthard von Starhemberg, he opposed the policies of Rudolf II and Matthias against Protestants and resisted the efforts of the commander Hans Jakob Löbl to transfer Protestant churches to the Catholic church. In Prague in 1600 he won concessions for Protestants, but in August 1601 he was summoned to Vienna and held practically a prisoner until he agreed to implement certain anti-Protestant decrees.[2]
Following the
After the Protestant defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, Tschernembl spent the next two years in exile in the Upper Palatinate and the Duchy of Württemberg. After the fall of Heidelberg, he moved to Geneva in the autumn of 1622, where the Calvinist authorities welcomed him. He died on 18 November 1626 in Geneva.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b Thaler 2015, pp. 552–553.
- ^ a b c d Daniel 2005.
- ^ Thaler 2015, p. 556.
- ^ Thaler 2015, pp. 557–558.
- ^ Thaler 2015, pp. 562–563.
Bibliography
- Daniel, David P. (2005) [1996]. "Tschernembl, George Erasmus Von". In Hans J. Hillebrand (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506493-3.
- Sturmberger, Hans (1953). Georg Erasmus Tschernembl: Religion, Libertät und Widerstand. Graz.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Thaler, Peter (2015). "Conservative Revolutionary: Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl and the Ideology of Resistance in Early Modern Austria". History of European Ideas. 41 (4): 544–564. S2CID 143753992.
- Thaler, Peter (2016). "Fall of the Peacemakers: Austria's Protestant Nobility and the Advent of the Thirty Years' War". Renaissance and Reformation. 39 (3): 133–158. S2CID 171982538.
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