Jan Długosz

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Jan Długosz
Kingdom of Poland
Other names
  • Joannes
  • Ioannes
  • Johannes Longinus
  • Dlugossius
Occupations
Notable work
Latin
: Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae

Jan Długosz (Polish pronunciation:

chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first historian.[1][2]

Life

Jan Długosz by Antoni Gramatyka

Jan Długosz is best known for his

Latin, covering events in southeastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died.[3][2] Długosz combined features of Medieval chronicles with elements of humanistic historiography.[2] For writing the history of the Kingdom of Poland, Długosz also used Ruthenian chronicles including those that did not survive to our times (among which there could have been used the Kyiv collection of chronicles of the 11th century in the Przemysl's edition around 1100 and the Przemysl episcopal collections of 1225–40).[2]

His work was first printed in 1701–1703. It was originally printed at the

Wieniawa coat-of-arms
.

Długosz was a

Thirteen Years' War
(1454–66) and at the peace negotiations.

In 1434, Długosz's uncle, the first pastor at

Władysław II Jagiełło
. Długosz stayed until 1452 and while there, founded the canonical monastery.

In 1450, Długosz was sent by Queen

Jan Jiskra of Brandýs
, and after six days' of talks convinced them to sign a truce.

In 1455 in Kraków, a fire spread which destroyed much of the city and the castle, but which spared Długosz's house [pl].

In 1461 a Polish delegation which included Długosz met with emissaries of

Teutonic Knights
. He was successful, and was in 1467 entrusted with tutoring the king's son.

Długosz declined the offer of the Archbishopric of Prague, but shortly before his death was nominated Archbishop of Lwów. This nomination was only confirmed by Pope Sixtus IV on 2 June 1480,[4] two weeks after his death.

His work Banderia Prutenorum of 1448 is his description of the 1410

Grunwald and Stębark
.

At some point in his life Długosz loosely translated Wigand of Marburg's Chronica nova Prutenica from Middle High German into Latin, however with many mistakes and mixup of names and places.[5]

Works

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jan Długosz.
Roczniki, czyli kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego (new Polish translation of the Annals, 1961–2006)
The Annals of Jan Dlugosz (English translation of key sections of the work,
ISBN 1-901019-00-4
)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Davies, Norman (1982). God's Playground: A History of Poland. Vol. I. Columbia University Press. p. 5.
  2. ^ a b c d e Isayevych, Ya. Jan Długosz (ДЛУГОШ ЯН). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004
  3. ^ "Jan Dlugosz". Catholic Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ Konrad Eubel (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, Münster: Librariae Regensbergianae, vol. 2, p. 176.
  5. ^ Samples of Jan Dlugosz mistakes and mixups on Pages 431–434 in Scriptorum Rerum Prussicarum

External links

Religious titles
Preceded by
Grzegorz z Sanoka
Archbishop of Lwów

1480 		Succeeded by
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