Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (Andreus Fricius Modrevius) (September 20th 1503 - 1572) was a humanistic and theologist Polish of the Renaissance, known like the " Father of the democracy polonaise".

1530 He was connected to the runs off Jan Łaski the Younger, the Polish Primate and nephew off the elder Łaski. Having lived for has time in Germany, where He studied At the Lutheran University He puts Martin Luther and other early Protesting reformers in Wirttemberg. He also took care off the library off Erasmus.

He returned to Poland in 1541, and became year official At the runs off Sigmundus Augustus in 1547. Native Since 1553 He retired to his Wolbórz, goal since He was leaning strongly towards the reformist (especially Calvinian and Arian/Polish brethren) circles He was in danger off being accused off heresy and stripped off his ecclesiastical titles and offices. The king, however, issued have letter off protection for him.

His works: Lascius, But One The Penalty For Manslaughter (1543, in Latin, Polish title " Łaski albo O karze za mężobójstwo"); The Discourse Of has Truthful Peripatethic (1545); One The Improvement Off The Commonwealth (1554, in Latin De Republica emendanda , first printed in Basel, Polish title " O poprawie Rzeczpospolitej"); Silve Quator (1590, posthumously).

In “Lascius, But One The Penalty For Manslaughter” He criticized the inequality in terms off law faced by various Social class is: while the penalty for killing has imprisonment nobleman ranged from 120 Grzywna 'S through life to death, the penalty for killing has peasant was only 10 grzywna' S.

Yet it was the “One The Improvement Off The Commonwealth” that brought him eternal and international famed. Central He advocates the strong monarchy, where the king should protect the rights off all. He postulated equality off all citizens before law, criticized the round of applause (1565) one Land-owning by not-noble and wrote that peasants should own the earth they work one and townsfolk should Be whitebait to buy the Land and Be elected to official positions (those rights was reserved for nobility only), demanded the reform (secularizing) off education, division between the State and the Church. This treaty was translated into many European languages, earned him many enemy among the Church and Pope Paul V could his book one the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (list off forbidden books).

He was in favor off sending has mixed (ecclesiatical and secular) delegation to the Tridentine Council (where He eventually was feels ace one off the Polish delegates)

He has to support off Irenism and the democratical and ecumenical element in the Church. -->

Quotations

Without laws it cannot have true freedom ( bez praw denies może być prawdziwej wolności )
the peasant is not there your slave, it is your neighbor.

See too

alphabetical List Polish writers