Marcin Kromer
Marcin Kromer (1512-1589) was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in Poland and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Biography
He was born in 1512 the townsfolk family in Biecz. There he finished the church school. In 1528 moved to Kraków Royal Academy which he graduated as a bachelor in 1530.
In 1533-1537 he worked in the Royal Chancellary.
In 1537-1539 he studied in Italy, and returned to Poland in 1540 as the doctor of two laws. He then became the secretary of the archbishop Piotr Gamrat.
In 1543-1544 he was the archbishop messenger and representative to Rome.
In 1544 he received the Cracow canony. In 1545 after the death of archbishop Garmat he became the royal secretary of Zygmunt Stary and worked closely with Minor Chancellor Samuel Maciejowski.
In 1551 he received the canony of Warmia. He was interested in culture of that region.
In 1558-1564 he was the envoy to the emperor.
In 1570 he replaced Stanisław Hozjusz as the coadiutor of Warmia bishopian diocesy.
In 1579 he became a bishop of Warmia bishopian diocesy.
He died in on 23 march 1589 in De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX from 1555 (About origins and history of Poles in thirty tomes) in Latin, Polish translation (O sprawach, dziejach i wszystkich innych potocznościach koronnych polskich) in 1611
- Rozmowa dworzanina z mnichem from 1551-1554, in Polish (Discource between a courtier and a monk)
- Historyja prawdziwa o przygodzie żałosnej książęcia finlandzkiego Jana i królewny polskiej Katarzyny from 1570, (true history of sad adventure of Fin prince Jan and Polish queen Katarzyna) a prose telling of love between Jan Waza and Katarzyna Jagiellonka (parents to Zygmunt III Waza).
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