Teodor Lacki

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Teodor Lacki
Died1619
Noble familyLacki
Spouse(s)Izabela Bonarelli de Roeve (it. Isabella Bonarelli della Rovere)
IssueKatarzyna, Jan Alfons

Teodor Lacki (died 1616) –

rotmistrz, Lithuanian field writer (lat. notarius campestris), and alchemist
.

Biography

Lacki came from the Lacki

Grand Duchy of Moscow and Teodor was related to the boyar Ivan Lacki, who had fled Moscow in 1535 with Siemion Bielski and entered the service of the king of Poland.[1]

Teodor Lacki traveled a great deal. He spent 1584-86 in Italy, and later went to France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Malta. While in Rome in 1589, Lacki worked with Michael Sendivogius on alchemical experiments to turn copper into silver.

He began his military service during the reign of

Zebrzydowski Rebellion
.

Lacki married Izabela de Roeve, daughter of Petras Bonarelli de Roeve (it. Pietro Bonarelli della Rovere). They had two children together: a daughter, Katarzyna, who later married Teodor Tyszkiewicz; and a son, Jan Alfons Lacki, later the castellan of Minsk.

Teodor Lacki died in 1619.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Maciej Stryjkowski, Kronika polska, litewska, żmudzka i wszystkij Rusi, vol. 2 (Warsaw: 1852): 107.
  2. ^ Leszek Podhorodecki, Rapier i koncerz, Książka i Wiedza (Warszawa: 1985): 101-102.

Bibliography

  • Herbst, Stanisław. "Lacki Teodor". In Polski Słownik Biograficzny, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 407. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1971.