Jiří Třanovský

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Jiří Třanovský
Crown of Bohemia
(now Poland)
Died29 May 1637 (aged approximately 46)
Liptószentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary
(now Slovakia)
Venerated inLutheranism
Feast29 May

Jiří Třanovský (

anglicized to George Tranoscius. Both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
remember his life and work annually, on the anniversary of his death.

Life

Třanovský was born in

Bohemia proper and Silesia and in 1612 and became a teacher at St. Nicholas Gymnasium in Prague. Later, he became rector of a school in Holešov, Moravia
.

exlibris

In 1616 Třanovský was ordained a priest in

Lutherans in Bohemia (after the Battle of White Mountain) under Ferdinand II forced him into exile. After imprisonment in 1623 and the deaths of two of his children from plague the following year, Třanovský accepted a call to be pastor to a church in Bielitz, Teschen Silesia. In 1627, he also became personal chaplain to Count Gáspár Illésházy.[1] From 1631 until 1637, Třanovský served as pastor at a church in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (Liptószentmiklós), Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia
).

Cithara Sanctorum, 1828 edition

Třanovský appreciated poetry and hymns, and wrote as well as compiled both. In 1629, he published his first hymnal, oddly named in Latin Odarum Sacrarum sive Hymnorum Libri III ("Three Books of Sacred Odes or Hymns"). His most important and most famous work was Cithara Sanctorum ("Lyre of the Saints"), written in Czech, which appeared in 1636 in Levoča (Lőcse). This latter volume has formed the basis of Czech and Slovak Lutheran hymnody to the present day. Třanovský's hymnbook together with the Bible of Kralice (also in Czech) became the cornerstones of the Slovak Reformation. In 1620 Rev. Třanovský also translated the Augsburg Confession into Czech.

Třanovský died, aged forty-six, on 29 May 1637 and was buried in an unmarked grave at his church in Liptovský Mikuláš.

Varia

See also

  • Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)

Notes

  1. Thirty Years War
    beginning in 1618

References

  • Daniel, David Paul, "Juraj Tranovsky: Slavic Hymnodist,"
    The Lutheran Witness
    , Vol. XCIX (1980), pp. 378–379

External links

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